Can you handle pawns?

by Jared Modica
3/16/2026 – Were you able to solve the challenge positions we gave you last week? Were you able find the way to promote the pawns to win? Today we bring you all solutions, with very instructive video explanations by Jared Modica, a chess content creator from Austin, Texas. He shows us how to solve tatical lines of play, and how to handle pawns in endgames.
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These are the four problems we gave you to solve:

In each case it is White to move and win.

Note that the fourth position is taken from an advanced study composed by Henri Rinck – but without a black pawn on h5 that he had included. That made the problem deeper and more difficult. The full analysis, taken from Harold van der Heijden's database (which contains over 100,000 studies and can be ordered here), is included in our replayer.

Solutions with full analysis on our PGN replayer

Solutions with video explanations

P1: Which piece do you move?

P2: Can you promote the pawn?

P3: Can you stop those pawns?

P4: How to promote the pawn?

Jared Modica is a chess content creator from Austin, Texas and the founder of the YouTube channel Volclus, where he publishes instructional chess puzzles and opening guides. With over 175,000 subscribers, he is known for his clear, engaging teaching style and his ability to make complex ideas accessible to players of all levels.

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