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Brouble_Rinkx
I am new to chess, how do I win this as white

tsoapm

The free Basic Endgames course on Chessable covers it early on. I found the beginning of the course a bit confusing, but then it becomes simpler.

Jahtreezy

Whose move is it?

For king-and-pawn endgames, the general idea is to place your king in opposition against the enemy king (as depicted on your board), which forces the enemy king to move laterally. You advance diagonally, and repeat. Then you walk your pawn down the board, queen, and then go for checkmate.

If you are Black, you want to take the opposition, and then continually retake the opposition as White's king moves laterally. Run out the 50-move clock and claim a stalemate.

tsoapm

What do you mean by the 50-move clock, exactly? I would have thought the game would end more quickly by threefold repetition. Thanks for the summary in any case, I'll make a note of that.

Mazetoskylo

This is a mutual zugzwang position: The side which has the move, has a problem.

If it is white to move, it is a draw- else white wins by placing the king TWO rows ahead of the pawn, and this is the generic rule to win such endings.

The diagram you have attached is with Black to play, so white wins by placing the king at e4 or g4 on the next move.

Jahtreezy
tsoapm wrote:

What do you mean by the 50-move clock, exactly? I would have thought the game would end more quickly by threefold repetition. Thanks for the summary in any case, I'll make a note of that.

With so few pieces on the board, you will probably hit 3-fold repetition first. However, there is another rule that says if no captures have been made and no pawns have moved after 50 moves, the game also ends in a draw. When you don't have checkmating material (like Black in your diagram), then you are aiming for one of those two cases to force a draw.

Excaliburo123
You can win like this 1. Ke5 2. Kg4 Ke6 3. Kg5 Kf7 4. Kf5 Ke7 5. Kg6 Kd7 6. f4
Ke7 7. f5 Kf8 8. Kf6 Ke8 9. Kg7 Kd7 10. f6 Kc6 11. f7 Kb5
12. f8=Q Kc4 13. Qa3 Kd4 14. Kf6 Kc4 15. Ke5 Kb5 16.
Qc3 Ka6 17. Qb3 Ka5 18. Kd5 Ka6 19. Kc6 Ka5 20. Qa3#