Réti endgame study

It demonstrates how a king can make multiple threats and how it can take more than one path to a given location, using the same number of moves.

[1][2][3] Endgame composer Abram Gurvich called the theme "The Hunt of Two Hares" and it appears in many other studies and games.

Black has to spend another tempo to capture the pawn, to prevent the white king from protecting it.

[6] Now the white king has gained enough tempi to get in the square of the black pawn and intercept it.

The solution is: In this game between Frederick Yates and Frank Marshall,[9] Black draws using the same idea: If 60...Kc2?

[14] This move is forced and the white king gains a tempo to return on a different diagonal which is not obstructed by his pawns.