Daily Chess Improvement: Must Know Endgame!
SusanPolgar
Black to move! How should black proceed? What is the game plan?
SusanPolgar
Black to move! How should black proceed? What is the game plan?
Actually, after 1...Kf5 2. Kd4 Kf4 3. Kd3 h3 4. Ke2 Kg3 5. Kf1, 5...Kh2 is a huge blunder, allowing 6. Bd7 with a draw. The right idea is 5...h2! sealing the K off from g1 with the pawn and forcing the B to stay on the long diagonal. Then the other two black pawns advance to g4 and f3 and it's all over.
Editor
I don't know if there is a shorter win here or not, but I would just play 1....Kf5 here without thinking about it. I would think the main danger in not winning this is white's king reaching the corner and white giving up the bishop for two of the pawns to reach a drawn ending with black still up a pawn. So, I would play 1.....Kf5 and 2.....Kf4 as the first two moves so that the king can't be cut off from reaching h2- from there black can confortably advance the g and h-pawns to h3 and g2 escorted by the king.