Pawn endgame training, pick your strategy!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 มิ.ย. 2024
- Today's video is quite different since I'm not going to tell you if white is playing for the win or for the draw. You have to find out for yourself! What is the best move for white in this position?
This study was composed by Nikolai Grigoriev in 1931 .
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This brought me back to reality. My endgame skills are still lacking
I was partially right in figuring out the first move for White. I moved the King. I just picked the wrong square.
That is called the Trebuchet position. The white king has to reach the C7 position AFTER the black king reaches A6.
very instructive
...to learn the basics
I think I need to pickup up my book on pawn endings
White king: A draw? A lousy DRAW? But I'm white, I always win the puzzles!!!
I saw immedialty 1.Kg3 in seconds. I know the opposition is important when White plays in a elemantary 3 pieces endgame with no pawn. But very instructiv to show other people!
Love your study materials. My suggestion: Would be nice if you come up with middle game preparation videos where we need to find the best moves in a middle game. It would help us to prepare for middle games combinations, tactics. Thank you very much again.
glad you make these brain games!
If you calculate black king can capture white b6 pawn. So to draw white king should occupie b4 square when black king captures b6 pawn and maintain opposition
Didn't look like white could force the promotion looking at the thumbnail. Luckily for white, the black pawn is a knight pawn so those are harder to promote than a bishop or central pawn.
Although what matters is opposition, that would have worked with other pawns too
First glance my guess would be to get the king to a1 and force a stalemate, cause a win looks impossible for white.
It's important to know when there is no win and to take the half point. So many games I've played where my opponent tried to squeak a win out of a draw and it always ends badly for them.
Instructive, this can happen in real games!
White king reaches the black pawn in six moves, the black king reaches the white in five. I would move the white king toward the B file block the black pawn, opting for a draw.
Half a point is a result
(@3:33) - After black plays Kc4, white can now play Ke2 with the idea of making it to the b-file, then using opposition to keep the black king from getting to the 2nd rank to protect his pawn. If black tries to play for the opposition down here on white’s side of the board, white will just keep it up until the 50-move rule draw is reached (or draw by 3-move repetition), or black tries to go after the white pawn, at which point white again occupies the b-file with his lone king.
No, if you go to e2, it will be just as in the video where Ke4 is played. If you let enemy king reach key squares like a5 on the video or go down and wait for opposition just before promotion, it doesn't work.
If the king is 2 squares in front of the pawn it's lost for the defenders. Since the pawn can move one square and opposition is then "reversed".
So the defending king must reach opposition as soon as possible, the targetted square is here the one where the attacking king will take the pawn, and it's even harder to not be "side-stepped" while defending. After Ka5, if Ka4 or Kb4 cannot be prevented, it's lost.
More specifically, if white lone king tries to blocade b1 from a long distance it's dead lost. When black king will reach the third rank, it's winning whoever turn it is, and wherever the pawn is.
If the lone king stands bravely on b2, facing black king on b4, trying some thou shall not pass defence,
if it's white's turn he can go down to b1 and it's dead lost as said above, otherwise the lack of opposition will make him go on c2 or a2 with black playing Ka3 or Kc3, making progress.
If it's black's turn and he doesn't have the pawn just behind the king, he will push the pawn and we're in prev situation.
Hence you must get opposition sooner.
i loose
What if the opponent is low rated though? Against a 500 we surely can attempt to win.
One thing I only just noticed about this puzzle (and probably a lot of the others). If you try to figure out the most recent moves that led to a position like this, there is almost certainly a major blunder involved. Unless black's last move was to capture a major piece on b1, there's no reason for his king to move there. But if white had moved a major piece to b1 with the king on one of the surrounding squares, that's a blunder on white to sacrifice that piece.
It doesn't matter at all, because this is a study thought to have you to learn pawn endings and their major item: the opposition rule. Please don't insist to "seek the fifth leg of the cat" as we say in Argentina.
@@eduardoroman2691 I think you misunderstood where I was going with this. I wasn't criticizing the puzzle, The setup just got me thinking about how these puzzles are constructed.
@@bwcbiz And who possibly cares of it? Don't waste your (and other's) time.
@@eduardoroman2691 That's fine. I don't care about your opinion either. :)
Hello, when I teach those endgames to young ones or beginners, I usually show them some real kind of moves that could lead to that in real games, hoping it has its virtues, but not sure.
So here the reason why black king is so deeply in white's camp is because he was escorting his b pawn from a2 and white's rook came from around white king (both cleaning some pawns and the sacrificed black rook maybe) and the white rook was forced to sacrifice itself on b1 just in time.
(That b pawn was a former a pawn that ate the real white b pawn, the one that is blockaded is a former c pawn, ofc.)
Why is 1. …C2 [3:10] so very important for Black?
King d5-f6-e7-d7-c7 ?????