Queen vs Pawn on the Seventh

You promoted first, but their pawn reached the seventh. Panic converts this into a draw weekly at every level; the method converts it into a win in under fifteen moves.

The mechanism. Alone, the queen cannot both stop the pawn and approach with her king. The trick: a series of checks and pins that leave the defending king only one square, directly IN FRONT of its own pawn. That blocks promotion for a full move, and that move belongs to your king, which steps closer. Re-run the sequence until your king joins the queen for mate or the pawn falls.

Know the exceptions before you need them. This method beats center pawns and knight pawns. Bishop pawns and rook pawns are different: with the defender's king close, they draw: a rook pawn by stalemate in the corner, a bishop pawn by the stalemate trick c1-a1. Checking whether the pawn is one of the drawing types BEFORE simplifying into this ending is half the skill.

This drill is the winning case (knight pawn). The tablebase defense will exploit any wasted check: the win is only there if every check tightens the net.