Here is a very interesting position. It looks like white is lost. The black pawns are threatening to promote. Can white save this game?
See if you can find how white can achieve a draw. The solution will be published in a few days.
White to move and draw.
Every chess players will agree with me that being concious of the imbalances and characteristics of a position is one of the most important things in a game. This awareness is the first thing that we need in order to start making a good plan in the endgame.
At the same time it’s highly important to have knowledge of some endgame patterns that sometimes arise. In this video I’ll show you an endgame composition that has some similarities with the famous study by Richard Reti that I showed in one of my previous videos.
Plan making in the endgame is one of the most essential things in chess. In this video I’ll give you some ideas about how to make and execute a plan.
Just as in the middlegame, when we make a plan in the endgame it needs to be based on the characteristics of the position.
This one is very nice:
Some time ago a friend told me that learning rook endings is one of the most important things in chess. The reason for this is that rook endings are very common and if we put some energy in studying practical endgames we can get a lot in return. Here is an example of a game that I played in a correspondence tournament at Chessworld.net. After having been in trouble in the middlegame we reached a drawish endgame that I won because of a big mistake of my oponent.
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