When I first saw this position diagrammed in Chess Life many years ago, I thought it was a composed problem. Why? Well, by what strange series of moves in a real game could the White king end up on h8? It turned out it was an actual game. For those of you interested in how that came about, the whole game is given below. Either way, the question still is about how White wins this.

Solution:

The original game went thusly: Averbakh,Yuri L - Furman,Semen Abramovich [D32] Soviet championship semi-finals, Odessa, 1960

1.c4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.e3 e6 4.Nc3 Nf6 5.d4 d5 6.cxd5 exd5 7.Be2 Bd6 8.dxc5 Bxc5 9.0–0 0–0 10.b3 a6 11.Na4 Bd6 12.Bb2 Ne4 13.Rc1 Re8 14.Nc3 Nxc3 15.Bxc3 Bc7 16.Qd3 Be6 17.Rfd1 Rc8 18.Qb1 Qe7 19.Qa1 f6 20.Nd4 Nxd4 21.Bxd4 Bd6 22.Bf3 Rc6 23.Bb2 Rec8 24.g3 Ba3 25.Rxc6 bxc6 26.Bxa3 Qxa3 27.Rd4 Qa5 28.Ra4 Qb6 29.Qf1 Ra8 30.Qd3 Bf7 31.b4 Be6 32.Qd4 Qxd4 33.exd4 Kf8 34.Be2 Bc8 35.f3 Ke7 36.Kf2 Kd6 37.Ra5 Bb7 38.Ke3 Kc7 39.Kd2 Kb6 40.a3 Re8 41.Rc5 Bc8 42.a4 Bd7 43.Bd3 h6 44.a5+ Kb7 45.Rc1 Bc8 46.Bg6 Re7 47.Re1 Rxe1 48.Kxe1 Kc7 49.g4 Kd6 50.Kf2 Ke7 51.Kg3 Kf8 52.Kh4 Be6 53.Kh5 Bc8 54.Bd3 Kf7 55.h3 Kf8 56.Kg6 Kg8 57.Bf1 Kf8 58.Be2 Kg8 59.Bd3 Kf8 60.Kh7 Kf7 61.Bg6+ Kf8 62.Kh8 Bd7 63.f4 Be8 64.f5 Bd7 65.Bh5 Bc8 (See diagram) 66.Be8 Kxe8 67.Kxg7 h5 68.Kxf6 hxg4 69.hxg4 Kf8 70.g5 Kg8 71.g6 Kf8 72.Kg5 Bd7 73.f6 Be8 74.Kf5 Kg8 75.g7 Bf7 76.Ke5 Bg6 77.Kd6 Bd3 78.Kxc6 Kf7 79.Kd6 Bf5 80.b5 Black Resigned BTW, if 66…Bb7 67.Bd7 Ba8 68.Bc8 wins.

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