test 3

White to move

imo, Kg8

1. Kg8 g5
2. Kh7

And black drops the h pawn.

i agree Kg8 wins but black can be annoying for many more moves. toughest one yet!

Originally posted by likeforest
i agree Kg8 wins but black can be annoying for many more moves. toughest one yet!

Deeply annoying?

How so?

This stretches my mind too much, is this some kind of mental yoga, my brain hurts. I think this puzzle is perversion.

Originally posted by ivan2908
This stretches my mind too much, is this some kind of mental yoga, my brain hurts. I think this puzzle is perversion.

Blacks problem is he's totally lost.

your line is cleaner, but i was looking at Kg8 g5
hxg5 Kg6! when black can fight on for a few more moves

So Kg8 and the poor black king can't take opposition because of his own pawn. So after Kg8 all that black can do is making useless king moves while white is munching his pawns since any pawn move for black puts him in zugzwang? Is that correct?

Nope, I guess it is not, I am so blind.. Embarassing.

I didn't fancy giving black the g5 square.

edit: Kg6 is no good!

I recognise this one, its a few moves into a study on the distant opposition in Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual if I remember correctly.