Wednesday, September 1, 2021

Queen vs Pawn about to Promote: The Missing Link

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Most mistakes by the superior side in queen vs. pawn endgames do not occur in the theoretically important positions with the pawn on the 7th...
Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Calculation in the Engine Age: A review of Jacob Aagaard's "Excelling at Chess Calculation"

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I certainly enjoyed reading this book on calculation (and plan to give Aagaard's book on calculation in his Grandmaster Preparation ser...
Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Beating Inferior Openings: 4.Bc4 in the Four Knights Revisited

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In his July 2014 ChessCafe.com review of Or Cohen's A Vigorous Chess Opening Repertoire for Black (2013) Carsten Hansen criticizes this...
Friday, June 20, 2014

Rook Endings 4: Rook Versus Two Isolated Pawns.

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We considered the fascinated case of rook versus two connected pawns in the previous post in our rook endgame series. This time the focus i...
Monday, June 16, 2014

Rook Endings 3: Rook Versus Two Connected Pawns.

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Endings in which a rook faces two pawns are more common and difficult than rook versus single pawn endings. There are 420 games in my mega...
Sunday, June 15, 2014

Rook Endings 2: Rook Versus Pawn Continued

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In a prior post we examined the key ideas in rook versus lone pawn endings. In this post we will look at some special and complicated cases...
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Friday, June 13, 2014

Rook Endings 1: Rook versus Pawn

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Rook endings are among the most common endings and playing them well is one of the most important and subtle endgame skills. To improve my c...
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