Mastering Chess: The textbook Way

Submitted by materialkiller on Sun, 05/11/2008 at 7:53pm.

Lesson 3: Tricky Endgames, what to do when no pawns are present and your opponent still has king + piece to defend.

know how to use the Queens mobility to defeat a rook but don't be careless the rook can draw! sometimes.

know how to draw using a minor piece vs rook and vice versa how to win if you have the rook.

know how to use the Rook + Bishop to defeat the Rooks ability to defend.

Lesson 4: Don't make fun of little people, knowing when a single pawn can defeat a piece or get the draw.

Classic Example is that a bishop pawn or rook pawn on the seventh rank can get a draw against a queen if the enemy king is too far away.

My favorite study for this lesson is when a pawn can defeat a Rook.

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by IJReilly - 2 months ago
Chicago United States

Member Since: May 2008
Member Points: 56

Thanks much, I could not figure it out, and I need all the help I can get in the end game.

by normajeanyates - 2 months ago
london [often in calcutta india] England

Member Since: Jan 2008
Member Points: 1073

Got it immediately - not because i am a good player - but because this is the famous Saavedra study! [ for those who dont know this one, it was in the early 20th century published in a chess magazine as a "white to play and draw" problem; but an amateur called Saavedra got immortalised in the annals of chess by writing to point out the win. At least that's how the story went, but iirc Tim Krabbe's site has some "correction of the record" - or was that about alekhine's 5-quuens game?]

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