Mr. Zugzwang
In chess, player with the white pieces has been traditionally considered having a slight advantage in virtue of the right to move first....
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Jul 12, 20202 min read
The rule of the square
Chess is a game of geometrical patterns, which should be assimilated to train our intuition to find right moves. This is especially true...
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Jul 12, 20201 min read
Endgames do matter
Tuan Minh Tran (2512) - Iyer Akash Pc (2432), Bhubaneswar 2018 In the position above, White has a clearly favourable endgame being an...
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Jul 11, 20201 min read
Pawn endgames: The opposition
One of the most important chess patterns is the king opposition (an odd number of squares between the two kings, either frontally or...
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Jul 11, 20202 min read
Queen vs. rook
Today we are going to look at queen vs. rook, an endgame that is trickier than it seems at first glance. The good news is that the player...
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Jul 11, 20204 min read
Queen vs. pawn endgames
Amateur chess players often neglect the study of endgames because they consider them boring and irrelevant. Indeed, if you were always...
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Jul 11, 20203 min read
Why you should study chess endgames
In this post, I will discuss why every chess player should devote time to studying endgames. We talk about endgames when there are only a...
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