Mastering Chess: The textbook Way
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materialkiller on Fri, 05/09/2008 at 10:26pm.
Lesson 2: Pawn Endgames
Outline of What to learn
Rule of the Square (good example of a visual technique to see if a king can stop a passed pawn.)
Power of a protected Pass pawn
Power of two seperated pass pawns - more seperation the better.
The art of the breakthrough
drawing themes against a rook pawn
Teremenology: Zugzwang, Triangualtion, Opposition, and Corrsponding Squares
Pawn Race
The art of shouldering and using the "crooked path"