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Ideally, your queen should do all these things simultaneously!

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activate his king. As you already know a king works best with pawns. Thus white should 57.Qb8-e4.
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Black: Kg8, Rd8, Rf8, Bf5, Bg7, Na5, pawns: a7, b7, c7, e7, f7, g6, h7.
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Here is a normal endgame position. White is slightly better and he could simply play 14.c3 now.
Instead of that he decided to play aggressively

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attacking the c2 pawn.

16.Ne1