Black has many more moves in the main variation e4 dxe4 Kg3 e3 Kf3 e2 Kxe2 b5 Ke3, if b4 then Kd4 and if you keep pushing the b-pawn white will capture it and then stop the f-pawn, instead f5 Kf4 b4 Ke5!! white needs the f-pawn to stay alive b3 Ke6 b2 h8=Q+ Kxh8 Kf7 b1=Q g7+ Kh7 g8=Q+ Kh6 Qg6#
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.
A very smooth ending. Nice. I'm learning a lot, thank you.
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Brilliant! I don't know how you see them!
Black has many more moves in the main variation e4 dxe4 Kg3 e3 Kf3 e2 Kxe2 b5 Ke3, if b4 then Kd4 and if you keep pushing the b-pawn white will capture it and then stop the f-pawn, instead f5 Kf4 b4 Ke5!! white needs the f-pawn to stay alive b3 Ke6 b2 h8=Q+ Kxh8 Kf7 b1=Q g7+ Kh7 g8=Q+ Kh6 Qg6#
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.
Before I even watch this I'm thinking NO WAY CAN WHITE WIN!!!