White to move. How should white proceed?
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White to move. How should white proceed?
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I think Bd8 should win. Kxd8 loses to b6, anything else loses all the kingside pawns and then the game.
Too lazy to post detailed lines haha.
1. Bd8! looks promising.
Dead draw.
1.Bd8, white will win!
1. Bd8 [threatening 2. Bxg5]
1… Kxd8 2. b6 +-
1. Bd8 [threatening 2. Bxg5]
1… Kxd8 2. b6 +-
Bd8!
Joe
1.Bd8 looks good. White will pick off the pawn on g5 (or else 1…Kxd8 2.b6 1-0).
White should move his bishop to h4, thus achieving opposite-colored bishops, increasing his chances of saving a half point.
1. Bd8 Be5 2. Bxg5
then white use the bishop to exchange the two black pawns. White win.
Neither
1. Bb6 axb6
2. a7 Kb7
nor
1. Bc3 (threatening Bf6 – Bxg5)
1……. Bxc3
2. Kxc3 Kc7 lead to an advantage for white.
White has to attack the ‘c5’ and ‘g5’ pawns. The only other way is with 1. Bd8! White should win.
Looking for different pressures defensive and attacking…
1) firstly it seems pleasant for white to have the B on a5 guarding the a5-e5 diagonal preempting Pe3 from promoting.
Maybe this then frees up the white king to pursue pawns Pc5 and Pg5.
2) maybe white pawn Pa6 and Pb5 might team up to promote? however if Pb5-b6 then Pa6-a7 conduit is prevented by black king on c8 (Kc8-b7). but then it means the black king is committed to being close to the “a” file.
white king plan (1) to go after the pawns is deterred by something like black bishop moving to a3 then b4. trading bishops leaves two black pawns that can be promoted.
so maybe take white bishop to d8 to get after black pawns, as black king is held back from moving away from the “a” file?
so Ba5-d8.
Hopefully future commenters will leave their tentative thinking like Yancy Ward does. Otherwise chess seems inaccessible to me.
1. b6 axb6 2. Bxb6 Bd4 3. Bd8
I like 1. Bd8. Hanging pieces in endings is fun. Of course, he can’t take it since then 2. b6 and either ab 3. a7 and queens, or 2…Kc8 3. ba and the King can’t go to either b7 or b8.
And 1…g4 2. fg wins easily, since the K can’t come over to help because of the threat of b6.
The person who said “dead draw” is dead wrong.
This is a simple win for white who has all his pawns on white squares, whose king is covering e2 preventing the Black pawn advance, and who has advanced uneven pawns on the a and b Queenside.
So the solution is attack the unguarded black black-squared pawn and attack it so its indefenisble.
1. Bd8! Be5 (what else?) (the Bishop is taboo because of b6 queening either the a or b pawn)
2. B*g5 Kc7 (If Kd7 then b6
3 Ke2 (in preparation for the next phase creating a distant passed pawn) Bd6 (what else)
4. g3 f*g3 (otherwise losing a pawn)
5. B*e3 (now with a two pronged pawn attack: a, b and c) Kb6
6. f4 (it gets worse becaue the G pawn is going to go). 6. …Bb8 (to cover at a7)
7. Kf3 picking off the gPawn and winning easily e.g. Bd6
8. K*g3 Ka5 (or better resigns)
9. Bd2 (same theme…king go back otherwise b6)
10Kg4 and march with the fPawn till the Black B has to sacrifice iteelf.
(alternative is Ka4
7. Bd2+ (forcing the king back otherwise Pb6 wins) Kb6
8. Kf3 moves
9. K*g3 with an easy win)
Psyche/ anonymous