White to move. Is this a win, draw, or loss for White? No computer lines please.
K7/8/5P1k/p7/8/8/8/8 w – – 0 1
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White draws. This is a mirror of the magical Reti study where White tightropes between threatening to capture and threatening to promote. I think it is from the early 20s.
1. Kb7 a4 (1. … Kg6 2. Kc6 a4 3. Kd5 a3 4. Ke6 a2 5. f7 0-0)
2. Kc6 Kg6 (2. … a3 3. Kd6 0-0)
3. Kd5 0-0
LOL
This is probably the most famous endgame problem ever.
This is a draw, the king along the diagonal, though not all the way to the other corner. 🙂
except the pawns are rotated
White’s dead.
RETI Concept. White king threatens both go to capture black pawn and to support white pawn on d7. It is a Draw.
1. Kb7 (1.f7?? Kg7-+) a4
2. Kc6 f3 3.Ke7 f2
4. f7 Kg7 (f1=Q 5.f8=Q+ =)
5. Kd7 f1=Q
6. f8=Q+ =
And white never but never in his life stops to check black king.
Love endgames. Nice one.
Sebastian Schereshevsky from Argentina.
yes. it’s a win, loss, or a draw…depending how you play it. definitely
It is a draw – it is the Reti problem flipped over.
This is of course a draw. White can not win. Black can take the pawn in two moves. But black is not going to win this. Either white also gets a queen, or black also loses the pawn…
Oh indeed, white is dead. The black king is in place to prevent the stalemate.
Black’s King is inside the square of the pawn therefore he can capture the pawn. White’s King is outside the square of the pawn and he can not stop it’s promotion, White loses.
If white plays 1.Kg7, and follow with the better moves, it´s draw… I think so.
A.
This line does not work:
It takes 4 moves for the following:
white: Kb7-c6-d5-e6
black: a4-a3-a2-a1(Q)
Now white has to get the pawn onto f7 and king on h8 for a stalemate.
5. f7 Qe8+
6. Kf6 Qb4
0-1
B.
So the strategy has to be to keep the king low: Kb7-c6-d7-e7
1. Kb7 a4
2. Kc6 a3
or:
2. … Kb6 3. Kd5 a3 4. Ke6 draws
or:
2….Kb6 3. Kd5 Kxf6 4. Kc4 draws
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3. Kd7! a2
4. f7 a1(Q)
5. f8(Q)+
draws
if 3…. Kb6
4. Ke7
and again, both queen at the same time.
Draw
draw
This is a draw.
yes this is indeed a draw a really nice one reti made some really pretty endgames but people should know that it is a win for black with the black king at a7
Yes, it appears that white has the drawing zwischenzug at 1.Kb7 a4 2. Kc6 a3 3. Kd7 a2 4. f7! forcing the black king to respond.
And
1. Kb7 a4 2. Kc6 Kg6 3. Kd5 a3 4. Ke6 a2 5. f7 a1=Q 6. f8=Q does not help.
Interesting ending! I think it is a drawish one.