The Chess Mind

By Dennis Monokroussos.
This is a blog for chess fans by a chess fan, one who loves the beauty of the game and wants to share it with those who are like-minded.
Yet the chess mind is not only a chess mind, and other topics, such as philosophy, may appear from time to time. All material copyrighted.
King and Pawn Endings: Exercise #2
Courtesy of reader Joseph Amaral, our second king and pawn ending study is a reasonably well-known effort by F. Teed (1885):



White to move and win.

For this problem, I'd like to make a special request of my readers: please write me, via this link, to let me know two things: (1) your attempted solution and (2) your rating. (But please do not give the solution in the comments!)

The solution will be given on Tuesday.
Posted by Dennis Monokroussos on Saturday February 25, 2006 at 6:45pm