White to move. What should White play?
No computer analysis please! Use your brain to figure this out. It will help improve your calculation skill. 
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Hello!
Propably Kg2. Even for sure Kg2!
The black king pushed back and the rest is quite simple…
Sorry, but you’re wrong 🙁
It’s g4 and a forced draw!
With any other move white will lose the pawn and the game!
this is the excellent examples that knowing a thematic pattern in endgame, is important, and sometimes reduce the calculation process (sometimes even it is not needed)
Rule number 1 is : if black king in 4th rank, and pawn at 5th rank.if white can get opposition with his king, it’s draw. but if Black get the opposition, Black win.
Rule number 2 is : if black king in 3rd rank, and pawn at 4th rank. No matter move or no matter who get the opposition, Black always win.
Knowing those 2 rules, I solve the problem without calculating at all (!), just put the pawn to g4 (to give it to Black for free), the once Black capture …Kxg4, I move Kg2! opposition & draw (rule no 1).
Regards,
FhunFi
From Indonesia
g4 and draw.I like pawns ending.
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Kg1 seems ok too.
Only way to draw is 1.g4. Later, white moves his king between h1-h2-g1, and as soon as black captures g4, the king goes to g2, with a book draw.
If, instead, white moves his king on the first move, black plays 1…g4 himself, and later the pawn is captured on g3, which makes all the difference. With a black pawn on g4 and a black king on g3, black wins no matter where the white king stands.
g4 also keeps the diagonal opposition!
1. g4 secures the draw for all of the reasons mentioned above. But how to win if it is Black to move?
White can play Kg1 and still secure the opposition no matter what Black plays without giving up his g pawn. Maybe I am wrong. Can someone show me the refutation of Kg1?
1. Kg1 g4 2. Kf2 Kd4 3. Ke2 Ke4 4.
Kf2 Kd3 5. Kf1 Ke3 6. Kg2 Ke2 7. Kg1 Kf3 8. Kh2 Kf2 9. Kh1 Kxg3 10. Kg1 Kh3 11. Kh1 g3 12. Kg1 g2 0-1
Hmm.. I see 1. Kg1 g4 2. Kh1 maintaining the opposition and black has no further pawn moves to gain opposition.
After 2. Kh1 blacks moves are
2. Kh1 Ke5 3. Kg1
2. Kh1 Ke4 3. Kg2
2. Kh1 Kd4 3. Kh2
Which all hold the opposition correct?
Ohh wait no I see the black king can outflank the white king even if the opposition is maintained.
So…
1. Kg1 g4 2. Kh1 Kd4 3. Kh2 Kd3 and white outflanks the black king and wins the pawn.
Thanks for the lesson Susan.
I guess another way to think of this position is to assume that as long as White can play Kg2 when black plays Kxg4, then he/she maintains opposition and draws.