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As we already learnt in previous topic that the protected passed pawn gives win. In this case it\’s an exceptional! White to play: 1. Kd6  Kb8 2.Kc6  Kc8 3.b7+  Kb8 4.Kb6 stalemate. White can\’t capture the a6 pawn. Black to play: 1.Kb8  Kc6 2.Kc8  b7+ 3.Kb8  Kb6 stalemate. Game is drawn. Share on facebook Share

Here Black King doesn\’t dare to capture either pawn. White to play: 1.Kb2  Kf4 2.h4 looks like a connected passers, g4 and g5 are under white\’s control. 2… Kf5 If 2… kxf3 3.h5 queening. 3.Kb2  Kg6 4.f4  Kh5 5.f5  Kh6 6.Kc3  Kg7 7,h5  Kf6 8.h6  Kf7 9. Kd4  Kg8 10.f6  Kh7 11.f7  Kxh6 12.f8=Q+ white

Outside Passed Pawn: A passed pawn which is far away from the main set of pawns is called an \’Outside Passed Pawn\’ In this example we can see that which as an extra pawn on queen wing. Actually, the position is equal but after exchanging the queen side pawns white will get an outside passer.

We have already learnt that the pawn protected by the second pawn which is also a passed pawn is called \’Connected Passed Pawn\’. Here we can see example of Connected Passed Pawns. Lets see this example, black has an unstoppable queening but white has connected passed pawns stopped by the black king. White to play:

Pawn Structures: 1. Protected Passed Pawn, 2. Connected Passed Pawn and 3.Outside Passed Pawn Today I\’m going to share about the different types of pawn structures in pawn endings. What is a Passed Pawn? A pawn that can\’t be hindered by an opponent\’s pawn on its way to the promotion square is called a \’Passed