Hi there -- can anyone reccomend some good endgame technique learning material? Preferably online and free :-) but whatever. I've noticed myself losing won games in the endgame way too much recently. (one particular horror recently, for example, was being a whole bishop up in an otherwise rook and pawn endgame, then managing to lose a rook and the bishop via blunders...)
I've had a couple of good endgames thanks to a book by Smyslov which is brief but covers a number of positions that come up a lot:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1857441982/qid=1076729694/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-4103402-3301641?v=glance&s=books
Silman says you should master the Lucena position, which is covered well here:
http://www.chessville.com/instruction/Center_Squares/Lucena_Position.htm
Chess Cafe has a regular column on endgames:
http://www.chesscafe.com/mueller/mueller.htm
Good luck boring your opponents into submission!😀
Originally posted by paultopiaSorry bud, here is what I have to offer.
gee, I guess not...
http://www.princeton.edu/~jedwards/cif/intro.html
check out the whole thing, but I think you might want the "Five Steps to Victory"
You should click each link and be sure you know all the strategies... I bet that page brought me up a 100 points or so when I started visiting it a few years back.
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Edit! "Good luck boring your opponents into submission!"
Isn't that true about a good game played!
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I'm only half kidding. I don't have the patience to try it, but doesn't it make sense, if you have a low rating, to study the endgame and play very dull openings (Ruy Exchange?) that give good endgame chances?
You'd probably get a lot of draws, but that's good because your rating will go up. And you'd probably win a lot of games as opponents lost interest around move 40...😴