Chess Trick #1: Quickly Calculating King vs. Pawn Movements

I came across this little tip from Josh Waitzkin's segments on Chessmaster 10 and found it pretty interesting. I had previously calculated every move in my head for end-games, and this will save a fair amount of time. Hope you find it usefull if you haven't come across it yet.

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[david959100]

im a beast at chess when im high

[pinkyfrogs23]

Thank you so much Jrobi. Your videos are very helpful and impressive

[Andy0Garovski]

Sooo-.- you are a begginer. you can not. teach people, if you yourself, are only a begginer. at least. try. to make your chess presentations, not so full of mistakes. because i see you provide some wrong informations. you need to check-up your videos you know?

[hermannw26]

@Pilooogen No, just take the black pawn.

[hermannw26]

why not simply take the black bishop and simply win the game with my white bishop?

[pie6561]

thanks your videos are so helpful keep up the good work

[masafa1990]

in the first example the best move is white king takes bishop.

[tcardosob]

@Pilooogen probably not, but if you're going to win anyway, what's the diference?

[mihic137]

2:11 hahahahhahahhahahaahhaahhaah

[Pilooogen]

Was it really necessarily to sacrifice the queen?

[saswata98]

@RsGhost1 Because otherwise black would advance his black pawn and white cannot stop black from making a queen out of it.

[duf101101]

Good stuff JRobi. A bit basic for me. But great for newbies.