Two Grotesque Chess Puzzles In One Video!

January 5, 2020 NHaselton Chess Lectures

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In this video I am analyzing two grotesque chess puzzles with identical pawn structures! While in the first one all White achieves is a draw, in the second one with a wonderful King walk White manages to win! In the end of the video as usual you can solve the daily puzzle!
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Samuel Loyd, American Chess Nuts, 1868 (16)
White to draw
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This position in Forsyth-Edwards Notation (FEN) is:
8/p1p5/3p4/p3p3/k4p2/2K3pB/7p/8
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Bernhard Horwitz, 1872
White is winning
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This position in Forsyth-Edwards Notation (FEN) is:
8/p1p5/3p4/p3p3/3k1p2/1K2b1p1/1NP4p/7B w – – 0 1

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