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Theory/One Tempo Turns the Draw into a Win

One Tempo Turns the Draw into a Win

Same position as the drawn version, except that the black king starts on c1, one tempo farther away. Ask the same question: can the defending king come to its bishop's help in time? Here it cannot, and in the end the knight cuts the bishop's diagonal. The pawn queens.

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