The Complete Chess Course by Fred Reinfeld

Author:Fred Reinfeld
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: SCB Distributors

King and Pawn Endings

In one sense, king and pawn endings are very simple.

The only material on the board has been greatly simplified. Only kings and pawns remain. Everything else has been swapped off.

However, king and pawn endgames abound in interesting finesses. In that sense, they are far from simple.

We need to be familiar with king and pawn endings because some of them, as you will soon see, are of a standard form that is always a win.

This means that whenever you can manage to win a pawn free and clear, you are in effect threatening to swap off all the pieces, reducing the game to a standard king and pawn ending that is an almost automatic win for you! The threat of this simplification is a potent weapon in your handling of the game.

Passed Pawns

Most king and pawn play revolves about passed pawns – their creation and their advance to the queening square. (A passed pawn is one that is not impeded by hostile pawns on either of the neighboring files. In Diagrams 21 and 22, White has two passed pawns.)

Some passed pawns are especially powerful. We can see this in Diagrams 21 and 22.

Connected Passed Pawns (D)

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