Cecil Purdy

Pawn endings are to chess what putting is to golf.

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[Event "rated untimed match"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "????.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Unknown"]
[Black "Unknown332"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Annotator "David Hayes"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[ECO "A02"]
[FEN "8/8/5k2/2p3p1/2P1K2p/7P/5P2/8 w - - 0 1"]
[SetUp "1"]
[TimeControl "0"]
[WhiteElo "0"]

1. f4 ( { White can try: } 1. f3 Ke6 2. f4 gxf4 3. Kxf4 Kf6 4. Kg4 Ke5 5. Kxh4 Kd4 6. Kg5 Kxc4 7. h4 Kd3 8. h5 c4 9. h6 c3 10. h7 c2 11. h8=Q c1=Q+ 12. Kf5 { Draw. } ) 1... gxf4 2. Kxf4 Ke6 3. Ke4 ( { White can try: } 3. Kg5 Ke5 4. Kxh4 Kd4 5. Kg5 Kxc4 6. h4 Kd3 7. h5 c4 { Draw. } ) 3... Kd6 4. Kf5 Kd7 5. Ke5 Kc6 6. Ke6 Kc7 7. Kd5 Kb6 8. Kd6 Kb7 9. Kxc5 { White wins with a large material advantage. } 1-0