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Your analisis has a mistake, because 7:29 after Kd5 Black will play Kf5 and it is a DRAW! If not, then write please moves for White!

White wins in 5

Playing Bc5 before queening the pawn is an instant checkmate when queening I think

Quite a convoluted explanation I'd say. For me at first glance looked easy: Kg3-Kf4-Kf5-Ke6-h8Q-Kf7-g7+-g8Q-Qg6 mate. I know my pawn endgames. :) Black obviously can't stop white king's march to e6 after which the well-known mating pattern emerges. But then I saw that a black queen on b1 guards the critical g6 mating square... That's when I for the first time properly looked what else is on the board... And saw the lone e-pawn: 1.e4! blocks the b1-g6-diagonal. No matter if black takes it 1.dxe4 or pushes 1...d4, the e4 square is occupied. White doesn't care about the color of the pawn. Afterwards, the original idea works. This is the essence of the puzzle.

Brilliant! I don't know how you see them!

Before I even watch this I'm thinking NO WAY CAN WHITE WIN!!!

VERY nice how you worked your way through. This is a great help to us mediocre players. Thanks!

12 mns To explain the theorical draw with the Bishop pawn

9:50 position is not explained. We didn't saw mate on d2 and have no idea how to mate in this pos. Maybe in another video idk

I saw 1.Ka4 immediatly. As a study composer it is clear, that the black pawn must be on life, because Black want to play ...Kg3 and Kxf3 and it is known that the f - pawn can hold a draw against the white queen, because the stalemate motif. But, sir this is logical and trivial.

Yes its right Thanks

It's a draw if black just holds off the white king

Can you please take the original setup and show the moves required straight through witout jumbling the pieces showing all the variation. I still can figure out the solution.

Hello, it's nice of you to have gone deeply in the moves, especially for beginners. So often opposition is taken and lost immediatly, in practical games. It's an exercise worth repeating. BUT you drew the game at the end. ( 8:36 ) If black king goes to c8 and not b8, you'll have to abandon the c pawn, and it's drawing with the a pawn. White shouldn't push the pawn in front of his own king, he should go and get the other black pawn. Not that the pawn is needed, but the space or tempo loss is needed.

Why not take the black bishop at the end - just for the satisfaction?

If black pushes the g file pawn instead of the f file pawn (10:44) I don't see how white can keep the pawn from queening, or it's a stalemate by repetition. The black king moves back and forth between g1 and h2.

Just my 2 cents -- u dont have give lengthy explanations. That way your videos will be short, and u get more views too.

Clear thinking! Enjoyable and refreshing indeed! Thamks🦉⚡🕯

The Soviet school of chess calls this technique “triangulation.”

First guess is Kd3

Rusian ches players make theory of critical point and critical route. It is much better explanation. Best regards.

Would Kf6 in the first move work?

I played it against stockfish. And after a series of moves trying to get the opposition I finally managed to get it and forced black to take his pawns and push one of my pawns to promotion

Brilliant!

My first thought was a8/Q.

I think, 1.e4 will win as well, with the same waiting moves after 1...f4, as you mentioned

Who was White? Alekhine Alexander? I guess so. Give credit to players/composers. Anyhow thank you.

At 10:45, watch out for Kh1, Rxg2 stalemate. If Kh1, you must play Kf2 to force black Kh2 or pawn promotion.

Wrong Analysis .. at the end the black King will move to h1, you cannot take the pawn in g2 with the rook, because it will be stalemate !!

You really need to give credit to the author of the puzzles you are using - using someone else's work for your channel seems wrong

Only move is rook check

These K+R vs K+P endgames can be remarkably subtle. Several years ago, one of these endings decided second place at a senior state championship. The critical position was: White: king on b6, rook on b3 Black: king on h5, pawn on g4 It was Black's move. He needed a draw to finish clear second. If White won, he'd finish clear second. Another player had clinched the championship, but money-wise there was a big difference between finishing second and finishing in a tie for third. Black played the losing move 1...Kh4? After 2. Kc5! g3 3. Kd4 Kh3 4. Ke3 g2 5. Kf2 Kh2 6. Rb1 White stopped the pawn in time, winning the game and the money for second place. The drawing line is 1...Kg5! 2. Kc5 Kf4! 3. Kd4 g3. Shouldering out the White king would have made all the difference.

what's wrong with: wR - a1ch, bK - b2, wRxp, bP - d2, wR - d7. Black can't defend pawn on d???

What happens if Black underpromotes to a Knight with a check? It only forestalls the inevitable for a couple of moves, or does it?

Do u have fide rating

That looked impossible for White. Brilliant.

Too easy for me! Much too easy the first check on the f8 - square. Beside, also if the white king is on b4 instead of c4 it would be easy won. I think this puzzle is for people who are learning the rules of chess. For example how can the white rook on a8 move, or so. Sorry, but I am a study composer and therefore I see the solution of such easy position without thinking.

It would be helpful if you state who is able to move first, that makes a huge difference.

Thanks for these videos. I started playing chess decades ago, and was never very good. You explain the situations and positioning very well and are giving me a deeper insight into the game. Thanks.

Good

I can win it as white or black with a brilliant move. It’s called flipping the table.

What about moving the WK towards the B queening square to stop it that way?

"Clear" thinking indeed! Thanks again!

I was able to calculate the winning continuation from the beginning position, then just jumped to the solution part to check it, and I calculated right. 😊

Not too shabby! I watched the whole video even though I found the first two moves in a minute or less. Technically, the echo has decreased to a suitable level! Thanks again.😊