I just love that Grandmaster Seirawans lectures. When he shows his own games he makes even fun of himself. What a great person! Modest, polite and competent. I cant imagine a better teacher. Thanks for sharing the lectures on youtube. I profit a lot.
These are outstanding scenarios to analyze. As someone new to chess, king-and-pawn endgames are a fascinating place to start! Thank you for covering some fundamentals.
At 39:08 it is a very famous position, I remember it as: "Push the middle pawn and make a square" so if hxg6 play f6, if fxg6 play h6, the four pawns make a square.
In the position at 30:25, another possible win would be f3, Kd3, e4+, Kxe4, Kxc4, Kf5, Kd3, Kg5, Ke2, Kxh5, Kxf2, Kxg4, Kg2 and white will queen 2 tempi before black. I think this is simpler than the solution shown at 31:31 with f4, where white has a lot of passed pawns and there are a lot more complications.
I just wanted to point out that at 30:01 1...h5 wins for black: 2.Kb3 f4 3.Kc3 f3! wins - the threat that Yasser points out of Kd3 followed by Ke4 and Kxe5 is not real - if white tries this, then black takes on c4 and then f2 and promotes his f3 pawn. In fact, even if white does not take the e5 pawn, he cannot stop black from breaking through. eg. 4.Kd3 Kb4 5.Ke4 Kxc4 6.Kxe5 Kd3 7.Kf4 Ke2 6.Kg5 Kxf2 white can resign. 3.gxf4 exf4 4.Kc3 doesn't save white either: 4...h4 5.Kd3 g3 and white's king is too slow to stop promotion. These variations seem much simpler to me than the position Yasser calculated but I'm just some patzer on the internet ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I just love that Grandmaster Seirawans lectures. When he shows his own games he makes even fun of himself. What a great person! Modest, polite and competent. I cant imagine a better teacher.
Thanks for sharing the lectures on youtube. I profit a lot.
These are outstanding scenarios to analyze. As someone new to chess, king-and-pawn endgames are a fascinating place to start! Thank you for covering some fundamentals.
I love Yasser's vids and his "WHOOAH!s".
Saw the first game in an earlier lecture. Very instructive. Loved the breakfast story in that one :)
lol "And every good grandmaster would see that right away."
GM Seirawan is a true Gentleman.
In Seirawan's calculation at 3:13 Ivanchuk could promote just playing e7, not exf7 not to lose his queen after black's queen check I think
At 39:08 it is a very famous position, I remember it as:
"Push the middle pawn and make a square" so if hxg6 play f6, if fxg6 play h6, the four pawns make a square.
In the position at 30:25, another possible win would be f3, Kd3, e4+, Kxe4, Kxc4, Kf5, Kd3, Kg5, Ke2, Kxh5, Kxf2, Kxg4, Kg2 and white will queen 2 tempi before black.
I think this is simpler than the solution shown at 31:31 with f4, where white has a lot of passed pawns and there are a lot more complications.
I just wanted to point out that at 30:01 1...h5 wins for black: 2.Kb3 f4 3.Kc3 f3! wins - the threat that Yasser points out of Kd3 followed by Ke4 and Kxe5 is not real - if white tries this, then black takes on c4 and then f2 and promotes his f3 pawn. In fact, even if white does not take the e5 pawn, he cannot stop black from breaking through. eg. 4.Kd3 Kb4 5.Ke4 Kxc4 6.Kxe5 Kd3 7.Kf4 Ke2 6.Kg5 Kxf2 white can resign. 3.gxf4 exf4 4.Kc3 doesn't save white either: 4...h4 5.Kd3 g3 and white's king is too slow to stop promotion. These variations seem much simpler to me than the position Yasser calculated but I'm just some patzer on the internet ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
what about the move 2...kd3 and then whenever u play f4, black can trade with ...g:f4 and use king to blow all your pawns?
Wow you can use an engine, good got you
8:58 :D