Kings & Pawn(s) Endgames

Black to move and White wins.

1...h5 2.Kd3 Kd5 3.Ke3 Ke5 4.Kf3 Kd5 5.Kg3+-

White to move cannot win.

1.Ke4 f3 2.Kxf3 b5! 3.cxb5 Kxd5=

White to move and win.

1.Kf3 [1.Ke3 →Main Line] 1...Kf6 [1...e5 2.Ke4 Ke6 3.e3!+-; 1...e6 2.Ke4 Kf6 3.e3! Kf7 4.Ke5 Ke7 5.e4+-] 2.Ke4 Ke6 3.e3! Kf6 4.Kd5 Kf7 [4...e6+ 5.Kd6 Kf7 6.e4+-] 5.Ke5 e6 6.Kd6 Kf6 7.e4+-

Black to move and draw.

1...b5! [1...a5? 2.a4 b6? 3.g6+ Kg7 4.Kg5 b5 5.axb5 a4 6.b6 a3 7.b7 a2 8.b8Q a1Q 9.Qc7+ Kg8 10.Qf7+ Kh8 11.Qf8#] 2.g6+ [2.Ke5 Kg6 3.Kd5 Kxg5 4.Kc5 Kf5 5.Kxb5 Ke6 6.Ka6 Kd7 7.Kxa7 Kc7=] 2...Kg7 3.Kg5 a5 4.Kf5 b4 5.Ke4 a4 6.Kd4 b3 7.axb3 axb3 8.Kc3=

White to move cannot win.

1.Ke3 Kc3 2.Kxf3 Kb2 3.b4 Kxa2 4.b5 Kb2 5.b6 a2=

White to move and win.

1.b4! c5!? [1...Ke6 2.Ke4 Kd6 3.Kd4+-] 2.bxc5 b4 [2...Ke6 3.Ke4 b4 4.f5++-] 3.c6! [3.Ke3? b3 4.Kd3 b2 5.Kc2 Ke6! 6.Kxb2 Kd5 7.f5 Kxc5=] 3...Ke6 4.f5+! Kd6 5.f6 b3 6.f7 Ke7 7.c7+-

White to move and win.

1.g6 [1.Kd5+-; 1.h6? gxh6 2.gxh6 Kf7=; 1.f6+? gxf6+ 2.gxf6+ Kf7 3.Kf5 Ke8 4.Ke6 Kf8=] 1...h6 [1...hxg6 2.hxg6+-] 2.Kd5 [2.f6+? gxf6+ 3.Kf5 Kf8 4.Kxf6 Kg8 5.Ke6 Kf8 6.Kd7 Kg7 7.Ke7 Kh8=] 2...Kf6 3.Ke4 [3.Kd6! Kxf5 4.Ke7 Kg5 5.Kf7+-] 3...Ke7 4.Ke5 Kf8 5.Ke6 Ke8 6.Kd6! [6.f6? Kf8=] 6...Kf8 7.Kd7 Kg8 8.Ke7 Kh8 9.f6 gxf6 10.Kf7+-

Black to move and draw.

1...f4! [1...Kd6? 2.Kd3 f4 3.Kxd4 f3 4.Kd3 Kc5 5.Ke3 Kb6 6.Kf2 Kc5=; 1...Kd5? 2.a5 Kc5 3.a6 Kb6 4.Kd3=] 2.gxf4+ [2.b6 Kd6-+] 2...Kd6! [2...Kd5? 3.a5 Kc5 4.a6 (4.b6 Kc6 5.f5!=) 4...Kb6 5.f5! g3 6.f6 g2 7.f7 g1Q 8.f8Q Qe3+ 9.Kd1 Qd3+ 10.Ke1 Qe4+ 11.Kf1 Qb1+ 12.Kg2 Qxb5=] 3.a5 g3! 4.a6 Kc7! 5.Ke2 d3+ [5...g2 6.Kf2 d3-+] 6.Kxd3 g2 7.Ke4 g1Q-+

White to move cannot win.

1.Kf4 h5 2.Kg5 Ke4 3.Kxh5 [3.b5 Kd5 4.Kxh5 Kc5 5.Kg5 Kxb5 6.Kf5 Ka4 7.Ke4 Kb5=] 3...Kd3 4.b5 Kxc3 5.b6 Kd2 6.b7 c3 7.b8Q c2=

White to move and win.

1.Kf3! c6 [1...Ke8 2.Ke4 c5 3.Kd5+-; 1...c5 2.Ke4+-] 2.Kf4! [2.Ke4? c5 3.Kd3=] 2...c5 3.Ke4! Ke8 4.Kd5 Kd7 [4...Kf7 5.Kd6 d3 6.Kd7+-; 4...d3? 5.Ke6+-] 5.Kc4! Ke8 6.Kxc5! d3 7.Kd6 Kf7 [7...d2? 8.Ke6 d1Q 9.f7#] 8.Kd7+-

Black to move and White wins.

1...Kf7 [1...g6 2.hxg6 hxg6 3.fxg6 Ke8 4.Ke6+-; 1...h6 2.g6+- (2.gxh6 gxh6 3.f6++-) ] 2.g6+ [2.Kd6+-] 2...Kg8 [2...hxg6 3.hxg6+ Ke7 4.Ke4 Kf8 5.Kd5 Ke7 6.Ke5+-] 3.Ke6 Kh8 [3...hxg6 4.hxg6 Kh8 5.Ke7 Kg8 6.Ke8 Kh8 7.f6 gxf6 8.Kf7+-] 4.Kf7 hxg6 5.h6! gxh6 6.fxg6+-

White to move and win.

1.Kd3! [1.b6? Kd6 2.Kd3 f4 3.Kxd4 f3=] 1...f4 2.gxf4+ Kd5 3.b6 g3 4.b7 g2 5.b8Q g1Q 6.Qe5+ Kc6 7.Qb5+ Kd6 8.Qb4+ Ke6 9.Qc4+ Ke7 10.Qc5+ Kf7 11.Qf5+ Ke8 12.Qe6+ Kd8 13.Qd5+ Ke8 14.Qxd4+-