I guess this is Rinck week. I love this position because it can be so instructional to beginners. They learn to race their pawns to queen first, but sometimes the race isn’t always to the swiftest. Some students might even conclude it’s a draw because the two kings will just shuttle back in forth on the same two squares and it will be a draw. However, White does win.

1.Kf4 Kb7 2.c5 dxc5 3.Ke5 g3 4.Kd6 g2 5.a8Q+ Kxa8 6.Kc7 g1Q 7.b7+ Ka7 8.b8Q+ Ka6 9.Qb6# It might be useful, when showing the solution, to stop after each move to think more about what’s going on and see when they get it all the way to the mate.

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