White to Play
Pete Tamburro
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Published in Chess Puzzles
Solution:
1.Kd3 Kd7 [1...Ke6 2.Kd4]2.e4 f4 3.Ke2 Ke6 4.Kf2 Kxe5 [4...Ke7 5.Kf3 Kf7 6.e6+ Kxe6 7.Kxf4 Kf6 8.e5+ Ke7 9.Kf5 Kf7 10.e6+ Ke7 11.Ke5 Ke8 (all this would be fine to draw if there weren’t those pawns on the queenside) 12.Kd5 Ke7 13.Kc5 and White gobbles up the Black queenside pawns] 5.Kf3 and wins.
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