15 Jun 10
SeanGGodley has recently produced an excellent U-tube series on Endgame Strategy based on a book by Lars Bo Hansen. The series covers 15 general principles of strategic endgames which has given me a greater understanding of how to tackle the endgame.
As an example take a look at
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which deals with Grip and Suppressing Counterplay illustrated with a game between Anand & Leitao.
26 Jun 10
Originally posted by iggy4One would think that people would be more careful before typing something like "completely obvious winning plan", but but anonymous internet chess has no shame.
I think Marinkatomb was referring to the video on byakuugan86's youtube channel. He must not have known that a bishop and edge-pawn cannot win if the bishop is not the same color as the promotion square, so he doesn't understand the moves in the video.
26 Jun 10
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Originally posted by Paul LeggettYes he made a mistake, calm down people. I'd say it's a little funny that people rated 1100 to 1600 are saying how great this video is. Do you really believe that anyone at that level has any reason for studying such an endgame? Not only is it impractical because it might happen once over 10000 games, but to be honest it was a little over my head, unless he was wasting time, and since I find most people at that level still lose games to one move blunders, its a bit unrealistic to study such an endgame. Just my two cents.
One would think that people would be more careful before typing something like "completely obvious winning plan", but but anonymous internet chess has no shame.
Obviously, everyone needs to improve, but if you ask me, these videos are a bit of a joke, at least for lower rated players. Without any commentary, the viewer is left free to guess what the guy was thinking, or whether he is even doing it right. And the videos simply aren't realistic. After I saw the first one, I went on to see 50+ moves of the guy playing out some one in a million endgame where three knights beat two knights. Entertainment value? Maybe. Waste of time? No question about it.
26 Jun 10
No, actually these videos have been improving my endgame a lot.... I never thought I'd be able to understand 2 knights vs pawn so well.... even the videos without commentary still contain some very useful concepts.... just the fact that a king can hold 2 knights while retaining the ability to move can be applicable.