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How to improve my general endgame?

@teachmewell said in #7:

... my problem is still the intuition. I rarely get to the endgames, because of my weird tendency for reckless play. Here is one from online play, chess. com ...
"... Another post-game agenda is to identify all the moves where the evaluation changed drastically. ..." - NM Dan Heisman (2005)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140627023809/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/heisman50.pdf
As the machine indicates, the serious mistake for you was 34 Kc4 (instead of 34 Kd2). I do not think that this is a matter of intuition. It was necessary to perceive that 34 Kc4 Nxg3 35 hxg3 e5 36 fxe5 Kxe5 37 d4+ Kxe4 38 d5 Ke5 was a road to disaster. 39...h4 gave you a chance to get back in the game, but then 41 b5 (instead of 41 axb6) put you back on the road to disaster. I fear that there is no way for you to improve at this sort of thing, apart from doing lots of practice pawn endgame problems. Perhaps, it would have helped if you had thought for more than ~2 seconds when you chose 34 Kc4.
https://www.chess.com/game/live/109753313535?username=teachmethoroughly

@teachmewell said in #7: > ... my problem is still the intuition. I rarely get to the endgames, because of my weird tendency for reckless play. Here is one from online play, chess. com ... "... Another post-game agenda is to identify all the moves where the evaluation changed drastically. ..." - NM Dan Heisman (2005) https://web.archive.org/web/20140627023809/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/heisman50.pdf As the machine indicates, the serious mistake for you was 34 Kc4 (instead of 34 Kd2). I do not think that this is a matter of intuition. It was necessary to perceive that 34 Kc4 Nxg3 35 hxg3 e5 36 fxe5 Kxe5 37 d4+ Kxe4 38 d5 Ke5 was a road to disaster. 39...h4 gave you a chance to get back in the game, but then 41 b5 (instead of 41 axb6) put you back on the road to disaster. I fear that there is no way for you to improve at this sort of thing, apart from doing lots of practice pawn endgame problems. Perhaps, it would have helped if you had thought for more than ~2 seconds when you chose 34 Kc4. https://www.chess.com/game/live/109753313535?username=teachmethoroughly

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