lol that's awesome.
The Great wall of pawns
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Kind of reminds me of this:
AndyClifton wrote:
Kind of reminds me of this:
The key distinction being, in your example, there's no way to capture any of the pawns for either side whereas in the 1st example,
white's king can travel around the e3,d3,c3,b4,c5 cxd5 path then walk his pawn to the queening square provided some cooperation from the opponent.
That would make a great problem Andy: "White to move and draw in 50".
As for the OP, thats hilarious. Whoever is on move loses, and it would be painful to watch it play out. You see it all coming and can't do anything to stop it.
No, White to play draws, Black to play loses.
learningthemoves wrote:
AndyClifton wrote:
Kind of reminds me of this:
The key distinction being, in your example, there's no way to capture any of the pawns for either side whereas in the 1st example,
white's king can travel around the e3,d3,c3,b4,c5 cxd5 path then walk his pawn to the queening square provided some cooperation from the opponent.
aha!
Ubik42 wrote:
That would make a great problem Andy: "White to move and draw in 50".
As for the OP, thats hilarious. Whoever is on move loses, and it would be painful to watch it play out. You see it all coming and can't do anything to stop it.
White to move loses in the position of #1 ?! I must be missing something .. 
To better visualize the position...
learningthemoves wrote:
AndyClifton wrote:
Kind of reminds me of this:
The key distinction being, in your example, there's no way to capture any of the pawns for either side whereas in the 1st example,
white's king can travel around the e3,d3,c3,b4,c5 cxd5 path then walk his pawn to the queening square provided some cooperation from the opponent.
I thought about that also. By trying to go around the other side gives black an advantage to get his h pawn moving. before white even gets the other pawn out of the way.
scintillating stuff
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Just a funny endgame I encountered and wonder if it had a name other than the obvious of it being a draw. It struck me funny mainly because he let me slip by ( though in the acual game I probably would have won anyway because of the structure of other pawns )