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Train/Zigzag Around the Check

Zigzag Around the Check

You are outside the square of the a-pawn and cannot catch it. So both sides will queen. The draw hangs on a detail: your king must take a crooked route that stays off the diagonal where Black's new queen would give check.

Play for time (Défi)