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I agree wales are not as good as last year and will struggle

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Originally posted by Tengu
Also, its terribly dull but if you practice and become really proficient at endgames you will win A LOT of "drawn" endgames.
I don't find any dullness in positions such as this one from Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual:

White to move and win



For class D players (1200-1399), I recommend basic tactics, such as you'll find in Reinfeld's 1001 Winning Chess Sacrifices and Combinations, checkmate patterns, such as you'll find in Renaud and Kahn, The Art of the Checkmate and Murray, How to Beat Your Dad at Chess, and the Winning series by Yasser Seirawan, which covers tactics, openings, endgames, and elementary strategy.

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Originally posted by Wulebgr
I don't find any dullness in positions such as this one from Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual:

White to move and win

[fen]8/8/8/1p4k1/1P3p2/5K2/6P1/8 w - - 0 1[/fen]

For class D players (1200-1399), I recommend basic tactics, such as you'll find in Reinfeld's 1001 Winning Chess Sacrifices and Combinations, checkmate patterns, such as you'll ...[text shortened]... ries by Yasser Seirawan, which covers tactics, openings, endgames, and elementary strategy.
g3 fxg3 Kxg3 and White has the opposition, Mirror the black kind till the pawns, keeping opposition and that should be good enough.

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Originally posted by RahimK
g3 fxg3 Kxg3 and White has the opposition, Mirror the black kind till the pawns, keeping opposition and that should be good enough.
so then

... kd5
kd3, Ke5 and what will white play? that should be a draw methinks...
brb I have 2 games waiting, then I will investigate further...

Edit: I am convinced this is a draw. I have supplied an answer below.

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Originally posted by Wulebgr
I don't find any dullness in positions such as this one from Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual:

White to move and win

[fen]8/8/8/1p4k1/1P3p2/5K2/6P1/8 w - - 0 1[/fen]

For class D players (1200-1399), I recommend basic tactics, such as you'll find in Reinfeld's 1001 Winning Chess Sacrifices and Combinations, checkmate patterns, such as you'll ...[text shortened]... ries by Yasser Seirawan, which covers tactics, openings, endgames, and elementary strategy.
Ke4
The idea is that when the black king goes down to capture on g2, then you take his pawn and your king position is superior (enough so to win his pawn and then the game). The other option is for him to advance his pawn and force you to exchange, but king position is still the winning factor for white.

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how will be the best way to attack to someone that move the queen so fast Imove e2 e4 he moved e7e5 I move my CRA3 AND HE MOVED THE QUEEN TO DA3 is not logic is to fast or he is a good player
let me know your comments

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how will be the best way to attack to someone that move the queen so fast Imove e2 e4 he moved e7e5 I move my CRA3 AND HE MOVED THE QUEEN TO DA3 is not logic is to fast or he is a good player
let me know your comments

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Originally posted by zebano
Ke4
The idea is that when the black king goes down to capture on g2, then you take his pawn and your king position is superior (enough so to win his pawn and then the game). The other option is for him to advance his pawn and force you to exchange, but king position is still the winning factor for white.
Hang on, though; what if he plays ...Kg4 and then shuffles his king around without taking on g2?

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Originally posted by dottewell
Hang on, though; what if he plays ...Kg4 and then shuffles his king around without taking on g2?
He can't shuffle. He loses the opposition by triangulation.
1.ke4 kg4, 2.ke5 kg5 3.Kd5 Kg4 4.Ke6 Kg5 5.Ke5 6.Kg4 Kf6! and now the squares are unavailable to black's king.

if 3...Kf5, then 4.Kd4 gets white the opposition.

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Originally posted by sjeg
How do you recommend it's done?-

I've got the basics, but am forever 1200-1350 standard.

Are there any really good books anyone can suggest? I've never looked at a serious chess book.

Are there any really good sites? I liked Test your Chess . com That was helpful.

I downloaded a ChessMaster to my mobile- improved maybe a little. But I'm still rubbis ...[text shortened]... othing to me before- but there's only half a dozen of those.

What can anyone recommend?
A long time ago, I put together a list of what I thought were the best chess sites (most of them free!). Hope this helps. (Interestingly, I had never heard of RHP way back then.... 4 months ago!).

http://blueeyedrook.blogspot.com/2005/10/top-chess-websites.html

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Originally posted by zebano
so then

... kd5
kd3, Ke5 and what will white play? that should be a draw methinks...
brb I have 2 games waiting, then I will investigate further...

Edit: I am convinced this is a draw. I have supplied an answer below.
Ke4 is interesting, maybe the best not sure. I didn't really look that much into it.

Here's what I was talkign about. Black king on Kg5 and White just played Kg3, white has opposition, blacks move.

Kf5 Kf3 mirror the king and keep the opposition. Ke5 Ke3 Kd5 Kd3 and now the question is where is the black king going to go?

He can't play Kc5 so he has to give ground and White can sneek in there and win the pawn. I'm just looking really quickly so I could be wrong but it's a promising Idea.