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How to win this endgame?



The computer shows a big advantage for white.
This is my opinion on how to win this endgame -

Your opponent and you both have a dark squared bishop. But all your king side pawns are in light squares, therefore making them safe from your opponent's bishop. But unfortunately for your opponent (and fortunately for you), all their king side pawns are on dark squares, making them an easy target for our bishop.

So our first step will be to push our queenside pawn one square forward to place it in a light square, making it more safe.

After that, you just have to bring your king to the queenside and take it for a walk to your opponent's territory while gobbling up their pawns. And after that, I'm pretty sure you know how to win it from there.
I don't think that it is actually required right now to move the b pawn to b3, because any pawn ending resulting from a B exchange is won for white, i would rather activate my king and force a B exchange because if you don't exchange B the white K cannot enter black territory. The only enter square is b4 and that is a dark square, so a B exchange or B deflecting is required, hence what is the point of pushing b3? The only reason for pushing it would be if black plays b4 IMHO. If we play b3 now I don't see the K crossing, since white should theoretically remove black B for b4 control and for that W needs probably a K in b3 and then Bb4
dont push the pawn it will block your kings entry on the left side of the board

the general idea from Pranav was correct go left push 2sides king cant defend the passer on 6th and left side simultaneously
I appreciate all the comment but this belongs in general chess discussion please don't forget next time #1
Bring your King to b3 , try to empty the field b4 for your king with Bb4 , so the black bishop has to move ( --> b6) , now deflect you bishop to f8 with check or not / threat h6 x , so Black have no time to block b4 with Ba5 , he have to take the bishop , so the white king will get to b5 , the b- free pawn will cost black the Bishop, the remaining pawn ending is winning
I think this position shows the weaknesses of stockfish. Perhaps the stockfish browser version needs a bigger hash table for solving this position.

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