An Educational Study Forged In The Heat Of Battle ⚔️

This is a composition that was forged in the heat of battle. (Click on the pic above and it will teleport you to the game that was played leading to this) 

My opponent did not find the winning strategy, however he should not be blamed for missing the victory. After all the winning sequence goes against many chess-theories and main principals, like "rim-dim-grim" tunes and that sort of stuff...

You can have a go at this and who knows... ...you might even pull this off, or not...

oh my...

It's an almost perfect endgame study. The only flaw I noticed is black's move 60 for which there are some alternatives. It's all about reaching g7 by the knight!

Still, it is most useful endgame theory!

Of the 10000 games I have played the last few years, this is probably the best "composition" that I have encountered from those cases.

What I noticed here is: Obviously, during a chess game, you do NOT want your knight played on the rim (Nh3) like that and you do NOT want your king going away from where the pawns are placed. Just like what my opponent was thinking judging by his choice of movement. However in this case, obviously, all the natural ideas are out of the "door". So how could he or any body else have won a game like that?

Strong chess players (master level) will win such an endgame since the ideas of the solution are not unusual or new to them. Knights often run their socks off to find positions where they stay out of reach of the opposing king while protecting the last surviving pawns and sac their lives for it. Still it is unusual to find such a long sequence of unique moves to reach that goal!