April 26th, 2010 
petrs A week ago I posted an article about an importance of pawn endings in improvement of calculation skill of a chess player. And today I have something like continuation of the “serie” with new example.
Would you find the right way to win the games as white?
White to move.
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Interesting position. I see the solution but I’m not sure I would have seen it if I wasn’t
looking for it.
I have a question though, is this a position from a real game.
Because if it is a study or composition, I don’t think the h2 and h3 pawns serve any purpose.
K-f4! Interesting problem involving gain of critical tempo.
Kf4!! Kb8
Ke4 e5
Kd3 Kc7
Kc4 Kb8
Kb5 Kc7 {forced as d3 leads to kb6 and c7 mate}
Ka6 d3
Ka7
and queening with check and thus gaining some critical tempis with dis interesting and excellent king maneovre}