King and Pawn vs King and Pawn | Chess Endgames

[@linear7612]

Thank you very much Stjepan. I have never seen an explanation as detailed as yours, before. Your material is very helpful!!!

[@niravapurv4578]

Your endgame series is really great. Thanks a lot for making. Only i miss chapters here.. so i made them here: 😀 00:03: Intro 00:38: 3 Critical roules: The principle of opposition. The roule of the square The roule of the critical squares (key squares). 2:41: Endgames with the pawns on the same file. First example. 5:23: Same position with black too play 6:52: Same file pawns: Rook pawns. 10:14: The shouldering technique to give opponents king a longer route. 11:28: Trick to gain opposition. 14:13: How to calculate the rule of the square; example with rook pawns. 15:48: Rule of the square; exaple with f vs c file pawn. 18:08: The possability of moving in 2 seemingly diferent directions at the same time. 21:43: Pawns on same file, but with no gap inbetween the pawns.

[@davehumphreys1725]

Thanks for the video Stephan. One point I would like to make about the rule of the square. The defending king can ONLY stop the pawn if it can follow the SHORTEST PATH to reach the P. If the shortest path is blocked, the defending king must make a detour to get around the obstacle, and that means he loses a tempo and won't be able to reach the pawn in time. Oh and at 5:50 into the video, if white plays Ke5 he wins as black must abandon his pawn.

[@cedriccappelle]

5:48 d5+? wooow huge blunder! Ke5 should be a very familiar position!

[@HangingPawns]

I know. I just wanted to show a sample variation. Sorry for the imprecision.

[@alexandereastwood1]

Was going to say the same thing, but it's clear that it was to show the drawing idea. Still nice to know our endgame alarm still works.

[@simohayha6031]

I hate these endgames... Which means it's great we get these videos.

[@Kokurorokuko]

I love studying endgame, it's the most exciting part

[@franksharp9021]

You should continue the endgame series!

[@nicbentulan]

21:50 yes it's so easy to blunder! but why didn't you show it? Kf4 Kb5 Ke5 then white is in zugzwang after Kc4. The position 8/8/8/3pK3/2kP4/8/8/8 (w/b) - - 4 3 was taught in josh waitzkin's endgame series in chessmaster like if it's (white/black)'s move, then (black/white resp) wins)

[@anandroy174]

24:48....lets take white turn Kf4,kb5 Ke6,Kc4 White has to leave the pawn d4..and then black captures it. Am I correct or not..please tell me...i am a beginner.

[@chesseveningswithabhi4782]

Thank You for such a detailed explanation.Great Work Bro!

[@rizka7945]

The first position is a draw. If 1.Kg4 like at 3:20 then the simplest draw is 1...d5! (1...Kb7 and 1...Kc7 also draw.) Now the black king just waits around and whenever white king takes on d5, black plays Kd7. Which means that white absolutely must play 1.d5 to prevent this plan. The problem is that white d5-pawn is too close to the black king and gets captured. Then the white king must take the opposition to draw. 1.d5 Kc7 2.Kg4 Kb6 3.Kf5 Kb5 4.Ke4 (4.Kf6?? Kc4! 5.Ke6 Kc5 0-1) Kc4 5.Ke3 Kxd5 6.Kd3 ½-½

[@deepnarayanbanerjee4348]

Now good endgame is my new backup plan thank you

[@patricksamaha5488]

Thankk you very much man u are helping me too much with these lessons but i have one question where can i analyse boards can i give me a site please?

[@mouatezkun9913]

Lichess

[@nicbentulan]

3:20 uuuugggghhhhhhhhh Kd7 is a blunder?

[@andy0519]

In the last one there is another blunder you can make, which is 1.Kf4 Kb5 2.Ke5 because black goes Kc4 and you cant take blacks pawn and cant protect your own pawn, and aren't even close to have oposition

[@ArjitRaj]

Thank you

[@moohaxx1411]

In low time games how r they able to play like this and calculate if its winning or drawn and when to let go of a pawn to achieve draw ???

[@voteforno.6155]

5:50 Trebuchet

[@ElbowFeverFurman]

Pretty sure at 5:49 d5+ by black is losing cuz of Ke5 and white has no moves

[@boomjonggol5757]

3:38 is Kf4 Kd5 better? Idk, I'm a noob

[@nicbentulan]

good question. looks like better but engine says technically draw with Ke3. this was 1 year ago so probably you even know this better than me? XD

[@ryaghnaramansanthosh3140]

Is there any book which comprises of important endgame studies?

[@HangingPawns]

1234 Modern End Game Studies by Sutherland and Lommer is great.

[@playerx-s4v]

Also Mark Dvoretsky's endgame manual

[@ryaghnaramansanthosh3140]

Thanks mate

[@khaledt2959]

This very helpful pls focus on the endgames i only love to watch your lessons not the others

[@VaSavoir2007]

At 05:52, if black is foolish enough to play d5, I am not going to play Ke3 as white, but Ke5, which wins.

[@amazonshoppingstore8888]

If black plays kb6 instead of h3 at 20:16

[@zanti4132]

That's an important point, actually, which should have been covered in the video. White draws with 3. Ke5! h3 (or 3...Kb6 4. Kf4 and catches the pawn) 4. Kd6 h2 5. c7 Kb7 6. Kd7 and both pawns promote. It is worth noting that the starting position is won if the Black king is on a7 instead of a6: 1. Kg7 h4 2. Kf6 Kb8! 3. Ke5 h3 4. Kd6 Kc8! blockading the pawn.

[@voteforno.6155]

3:18 The first position with White to play is a draw but after 1.Kg4 Kd7? loses the game after 2.d5! and Black is unable to stop White from occupying the critical square g6.

[@jaunseena1484]

No, the game is still a draw. Black is able to go around the pawn and take the opposition. Even after black captures the pawn white can still stop black’s pawn

[@zanti4132]

1. Kg4 Kd7? 2. d5! wins: (a) 2...Ke7 3. Kg5! Kf7 4. Kf5 Ke7 5. Kg6, a maneuver I've heard called "getting on the wing of the airplane." The continuation might be 5...Ke8 6. Kf6 Kd7 7. Kf7 Kd8 8. Ke6 Kc7 9. Ke7 Kc8 10. Kxd6 Kd8 11. Ke6 Ke8 12. d6 Kd8 13. d7 Kc7 14. Ke7 and the pawn promotes. (b) 2...Kc7 3. Kf5 Kb6 4. Kf6! Kb5 (3...Kc7 4. Ke7 wins as in line a) 5. Ke7! Kc5 6. Ke6 and wins.

[@niravapurv4578]

g6 is not a critical, or key square as i like to call it, with this pawn position. But you are right. White wins this position because he can enter g6. The reason is that even if black gains the opposition. As Stephan explained in a earlier video of these endgame series... the earlier video of pawn endgames. He explained that a normal situation when white king is right in front of a b, c, d, e, f, or g pawn, and black has the oppositon, it is a draw... exept when the pawn is on fifth rank, making the defending king on a backrank, then its actually a win. And that is exactly what happens here. As you say the white king gets to enter g6. Black has to take the opposition or will most likely try that way... but then the white king can now move to f6. Then to e6 and then to d6 in front of his pawn.. the best black can do is to follow and keep the opposition. And when white king lands on d6, black king will land on d8. Then you have this exact configuration witch is winning only when pawn is on fitfh rank and attacking king is on 6th. That means with that specific configuration: White pawn on 5th rank... or here d5, its not only c7, d7, and e7 witch is the key squares, but also d6. So i just wanted to explain that its the d6 square here witch is the key square. g6 is where the king enters. But its not winning no matter where black king is, those its not a key square per definition. The definition of key square is that if the attacking king can land on this square, he is winning no matter where the opponent king is. With white pawn on d5, black pawn on d6, and if white king lands on g6 while black king is on b6.. meaning its black to move, black is winning with Kc5. Earlier in this variation black king will not get there in time, so is loosing because of that.

[@ELOFIDE-sb3qk]

first like first comment was on youtube waiting for your video

[@HangingPawns]

Hehe;) Thank you Rishi!

[@sailorjiang1851]

5:49 d5 ke5?

[@HangingPawns]

True. I just wanted a sample variation. Didn't think about that one ahead.