Summer Holiday Boredom Buster

Solution for Puzzle 3 posted July 26th 2009:

It takes 7 moves for a King to get from h8 to h1 but, remember, they can do it without going in a straight line ! The key to this puzzle is the diagonal movement of the King which gets him nearer to the Black pawn on h4 and nearer to his own pawn on c6.

Here we go …

1. Kh8-g7 h5-h4; 2. Kg7-f6 h4-h3; 3. Kf6-e6 h3-h2; 4. c6-c7 Ka6-b7 5. Ke6-d7 and both sides get a new Queen

or

1. Kh8-g7 h5-h4; 2. Kg7-f6 Ka6-b6; 3. Kf6-e5 h4-h3 (if Kb6xc6 then Ke5-f4 catching up with the pawn !); 4. Ke5-d6 h3-h2; 5. c6-c7 Kb6-b7; 6. Kd6-d7