White to move. Is this a win or draw for White? How should White proceed?
4k3/8/8/8/8/8/4P3/4K3 w – – 0 1
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White to move. Is this a win or draw for White? How should White proceed?
4k3/8/8/8/8/8/4P3/4K3 w – – 0 1
It is a forced win for white as long as he brings his King around and moves his king and pawn so as to force the black king to give way. It doesn’t matter whether which side he comes out from.
It’s a win for white. The idea is to get the king to e4 even at the cost of giving black the short opposition. Then white plays e3 and wins.
Win for white as long as its white to move.
Draw if its black to move.
As I understand it, White should straightaway play his king to d4 e4 or f4. Black getting the opposition does not really matter because the pawn has a choice of double advance or single advance. In essence, the black king must be constantly staying in front of the pawn and forcing the black king back, using the pawn’s moves to get the opposition. The black king cannot allow the white king to sidestep him and support the pawn home, so he must keep going backward. White wins as long as he doesn’t give black the opposition when the black king is on the back row and the pawn has advanced to the fifth.(or earlier in a similar situation)
White wins. Simply move the king forward as far as possible and only then advance the pawn. If need be white could still “lose” a move by advancing the pawn only one step rather than two from its initial position.
Beelze
Just advance the King first. When Black tries to take the opposition, advance the pawn.
I would think this is a win for white no matter who is to move since white can always change the tempo with a one or two square pawn advance.
Golden Rule number 1:
King should be in front of the pawn
Susan,
let your readers solve the best of all 2-pawn endings.
Grigoriev 1932
w: Kg6 Pa2
b: Kf3 Pc7
White to move and win!!
If Ka1 P. a2 Ka8, Kb1 P. b2 Kb8, Kg1 P. g2 Kg8, and Kh1 P. h2 Kh8, than it is allways DRAW(!!??).
Raisha