The outside passed pawn: how to win with it
The outside passed pawn · You are White · make a queen within 40 moves
White to move. FEN: 8/8/4k3/6p1/P3K3/6P1/8/8 w - - 0 1
The idea
Your a-pawn is far from the black king. Push it: the black king has to run over to stop it, and while it does, your king walks across and eats the g-pawn. Then your own g-pawn queens.
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