Well yes, but the idea is that people would show their working out. Which brings us to the second (deleted) part of your comment. I fear we may be boring you this week. You might want to pop back on Friday though.
Yes, 2 e6 wins by force, provided care is exercised in managing tempi after the forcing sequence 2...Rxe6; 3 Rxe6 fxe6
Now 4 h3! gains one tempo to force a K entry. But not 4 h4 which does the same, but rules out a later g4 to gain a further tempo.
So now 4...Kf7 (4...Kh7; 5 Kf6 wins trivially); 5 Kh6 Kf6; and now time to force a second gain of tempo because 6 Kh7 f5 gets somewhere bad somewhat quickly!
Hence 6 g4. Now 6...hxg4 doesn't alter anything. So 6...h4; 7 g5+
Now, 7...Kf5 (7...Kf7; 8 Kh7 wins this time) and I presume 8 Kg7. I say 'presume' because 8 Kh7 looks identical, but maybe isn't. I'd play 8 Kg7 instinctively, being alert to issues arising after ...e5. Haven't worked it out though. But Kh7 can't be better than Kg7, surely.
Anyhow, 8 Kg7 Kxf4; 9 Kxg6 and the g5 pawn runs faster than the e6 pawn
There's just one more thing you have to see - either calculate out or just understand that it must be so - to do with the fact that the pawns queen at the same time.
Ah, right. Well, really not top of the class then. I thought the g-pawn Queen'd a move ahead.
So, for W to hold the win, one needs to know where to pop the WK after 9 Kxg6 e5. Presumably 10 Kh5 followed by the pawn race. And then, after queening, the BK is checked off to the e-file when Queens are traded on e1. And then, ta-daahh, W wins the h-pawn and scuttles his own quickly to h8
Important last bit that I didn't bother to pursue. 'Top of the class' must wait.
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Well yes, but the idea is that people would show their working out. Which brings us to the second (deleted) part of your comment. I fear we may be boring you this week. You might want to pop back on Friday though.
Yes, 2 e6 wins by force, provided care is exercised in managing tempi after the forcing sequence 2...Rxe6; 3 Rxe6 fxe6
Now 4 h3! gains one tempo to force a K entry. But not 4 h4 which does the same, but rules out a later g4 to gain a further tempo.
So now 4...Kf7 (4...Kh7; 5 Kf6 wins trivially); 5 Kh6 Kf6; and now time to force a second gain of tempo because 6 Kh7 f5 gets somewhere bad somewhat quickly!
Hence 6 g4. Now 6...hxg4 doesn't alter anything. So 6...h4; 7 g5+
Now, 7...Kf5 (7...Kf7; 8 Kh7 wins this time) and I presume 8 Kg7. I say 'presume' because 8 Kh7 looks identical, but maybe isn't. I'd play 8 Kg7 instinctively, being alert to issues arising after ...e5. Haven't worked it out though. But Kh7 can't be better than Kg7, surely.
Anyhow, 8 Kg7 Kxf4; 9 Kxg6 and the g5 pawn runs faster than the e6 pawn
Top of the class David. That's the winning line.
There's just one more thing you have to see - either calculate out or just understand that it must be so - to do with the fact that the pawns queen at the same time.
Ah, right. Well, really not top of the class then. I thought the g-pawn Queen'd a move ahead.
So, for W to hold the win, one needs to know where to pop the WK after 9 Kxg6 e5. Presumably 10 Kh5 followed by the pawn race. And then, after queening, the BK is checked off to the e-file when Queens are traded on e1. And then, ta-daahh, W wins the h-pawn and scuttles his own quickly to h8
Important last bit that I didn't bother to pursue. 'Top of the class' must wait.
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