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We haven’t done endings in a while, so we will start with some basic king and pawn endings. Here, the white king seems far away and the white pawns seem very vulnerable, but…


1.f6 Ke6 [1...gxf6 2.g6 hxg6 3.h6] 2.fxg7 Kf7 3.h6 Kg8 4.Kd3 Kf7 5.Ke4 Kg8 6.Ke5 Kf7 7.Kf5 Kg8 8.g6 hxg6+ 9.Kf6 g5 10.Kg6 g4 11.h7# That little triangulation from e4 to f5 is worth remembering.

 


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