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Swedish chess challenge number 5 is really just slightly advanced from number 4. For those of you who are new to this, this is a very important basic endgame skill.


The big lesson here is how to keep the “opposition” (kings one square—or odd squares—apart, with the person on the move about to lose the opposition, which you don’t want to do), both by king movement and proper pawn movement. For example 1.c4 would draw, while 1.c3 would win by following the solution here, which moves the king first. Keeping the king in front of its pawn and having space between the two insures you keep the opposition: 1.Kc4 Kc6 2.c3 Kd6 3.Kb5 Kc7 4.Kc5 Kd7 5.Kb6 Kc8 6.Kc6 Kb8 7.c4 Kc8 8.c5 Kb8 9.Kd7 and the pawn is escorted in.

 


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