When you have pawns on the board, they prevent the king from taking the opposition on certain squares. From black's perspective, where can he put the king where white cannot taking the opposition he wants to take?
White can't move his king to c3, so black might immediately look at whether manuevering his king to c7 is useful. If black can get to c7 and white can't take the oppositiion with Kc5, then it is black who will be in control.
That's the best I can do in terms of hints into the position before doing the calculation. Sometimes you'll just have to do the calculation.
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watch this:
Distant opposition can roughly be defined as “Putting your King on a square which creates a rectangle with the other King with all four corners of the rectangle the same colored square (such as a light square), with the usual caveat of no pawns interfering/between the Kings
and now for my question...
its easy to "see" the distance opposition if there are no pawns interfering between the kings... there is a visual easy way to "see" the opposition when there are pawns between them? i guess its more important...
see this example:
in this case taking the opposition with Kd2 is wrong because the black king manage to prevent the white king to get to 1 of the critical squares in front of the pawn (b5,c5,d5) while the move Kc2 is correct and get the king to one of the critical squares.
how u calculate this kind of positions fast? there is a visual way (like to "make" a rectangle with the same color squares between king)?