October 2017

Tip of the month for October

Winning K+P (not rooks pawns) v K

Learn this diagram

For pawns in your own half of the board if your king can reach any of the 3 highlighted squares you can force the promotion of your pawn.

For pawns in your opponent’s half of the board you have 6 squares for the king.

Keep visualising this position as you play your moves, pushing K and P up the board and there is no more theory to learn.

Tim Turner