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k7/1p6/3p2p1/1P1P2P1/1P5p/KP6/P7/8 w – – 0 0
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White to move and DRAW! No computer please 🙂
k7/1p6/3p2p1/1P1P2P1/1P5p/KP6/P7/8 w – – 0 0
Funny puzzle. You have to trap your own King for the stalemate.
first b6 h3
b5 h2
Ka4 h1Q
Ka5 Qxd5 (Qe1+ b4 or Qa1 a4)
a4
Just to complement anon 11:20.
After
4. … Qxd5
5. a4
Qxb3 is stalemate, else Q wherever b4 and there is no way to avoid stalemate.
There is a way to avoid stalemate: After 5.a4 Kb8
6.b4 Qc6 7.bc6 bc6.
After 5.a4 Kb8 6.b4 Qc6?! 7.bc6 bc6 8.Ka6 d5 9.b5 c5 10.b7 white is even winning.
I want to thank Mark and Leprechaun for going to my blog and commenting that the picture I have their of the puppy that we inherited is a “puggle”. Do the rest of you agree? Please go to my blog and look at the picture and leave me a comment their.
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I will check the website you told me Mark about the Puggles. SUSAN can you put the picture of my puppy so that other can comment on what kind of do it is?
Thanks
WCM Claudia Munoz – 4th grader in lunch
white can avoid stalemate by taking on g5 and after b4, Qxb5+ Kb5 g4. But it still looks drawish. By the way black can underpromote to bishop or knight! Knight can even checkmate white king from c4 or b3.. I don’t know 🙁
Oh no, I was wrong.. knight doesn’t make it on c4/b3 on time.. and if black promotes to bishop white plays b4 first and after Bd5, a3 B(sth) Ka5 and a4 draw. ok.
Draw, you can draw this?
A.Munoz
WCM Claudia’s dad
I still dont see why it is a draw.
1. Ka4 h3
2. b6 h2
3. b5 h1 (Bishop)
4. b4 Bxd5
5. a3 Kb8
6. Ka5 Bb3
7. a4 Bxa4
8. Kxa4 d5
9. Kb3 Kc8
10. Kc3 Kd7
11. Kd3 Ke6
White cannot stop Black from promoting d-pawn.
Anything wrong here ?
To Chandra’s line:
The mistake is to start with the king.
1. b6 h3
2. b5 h2
3. Kb4!
if 3. … h1B, 4. Kc4 and it’s impossible for black to win the d5-pawn and to break through.
For all other promotions the king goes to a5 and stalemate is unavoidable.