IMJohnCox wrote on 07/21/08 at 13:05:14:

Here it goes

The second position is probably won for White. The general ideas are:
- walk with the king to b6 and try to win the b7 pawn, alternatively exchange one pawn and promote the other
- if Black tries to stop this White can attack the g5 pawn with his bishop
- Black can play the K to d5 and win the c5 pawn with Na6-c5 but then White wins the g5 pawn with the bishop and has a passed f pawn.
Black might have some ingenious defence against this, but I haven't seen any.

Following on from Smyslov_Fan's request in another thread for more positions to analyze, I submit the following, not just because I found it rather interesting, but to inquire as to whether endgame principles can help determine the outcome:

W: Kg1, Bb5, Bd6, a3, c4, f3, g2, h2
B: Kf7, Bh5, Nd3, b7, e6, f5, g5, h7

Black (me) to play.  Play continued: 36...e5 37.c5 e4 38.Bd7 exf3 39.Bxf5 Bg6 40.Bxg6+ Kxg6 41.a4 Nb4 42.gxf3 Kf5.  Somewhere around here, I offered a draw.  I felt that although White had the strong bishop and the pawn majority on the queenside (and the fact that I was a pawn down), I couldn't see any method of getting a pawn past the post for White.  It seems to me that if White wants to include his king in the attack, he needs to give up one of those pawns.  White continued for another dozen moves along a line I had not anticipated, before offering a draw, which I accepted.   

Two questions: 1). Is the initial position drawn?  2). Is the position where I made the draw offer drawn?  I'm not so sure in either case...