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Same color bishop endgame, 3+1 Pawn vs. 3 Pawns

Yes it should be possible, one way is to use the flank pawn to distract the king and then get the king to enter the black pawns and take them one by one and if black tries to defend by putting their base pawn on a dark square, and defend it with the bishop, white can still attack it with his own dark square bishop and king and will eventually break the structure down and win
en.lichess.org/iWByfzS6/white

I beat stockfish 8 under these circumstances. It is NOT a simple win. If you don't do things properly you may get a draw or loss if you blunder.

Strategy:

1) You must know that your passed pawn is the wrong rook pawn. Even if you win the enemy bishop, and it ends up Bishop + A pawn vs a lone king you can not win if the king is in the corner.

2) The A pawn is only useful as a decoy

I am unsure if this can be drawn with better play or not. I drew it a few times before winning.

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