On game #6
Why do you give him a pawn with 10 e6? All strategy may lead to the win of a pawn and here you just give him a pawn for nothing.
You give him another pawn with 11 Ke2 and 12 Bd2: he can just take 12...Bxb2.
29 Rg1 is the rook behind the passed pawn, but 29 g6 was stronger. The reason is that after 29 g6 he can block with ...Rg7, but then you chase his rook with Bf6.
The same 30 g6, intending 31 Bf6.
You end up losing your vital pawn h2, which allows him to promote his h-pawn to a queen.
So you lost this game not by strategy or by endgame technique, but by losing pawns for nothing.
#10 is a tactical exercise. Black attacks Nf2 and threatens a second attack with ...Bf6, so the trick is to save the piece by tactical means and save the draw.
The basic fortress is a position like P@a3 R@b4 K@a1 - k@c5 q@f2 Where the king has to help in order to win the pawn, but can't break the barrier that the rook creates.
Mess around with the defensive side of it, you'll get the idea.
@tpr Comon dude. That game was from one year ago. I knew only how to move the pieces back then and that I should develop the pieces and try to pass the pawns, but nothing about tactics. But even today after reaching 2000 on lichess tactical puzzles, I still don't think I would be able to promote that pawn, that's my point. A lot of stuff has to happen for that pawn to pass according to the computer. I'm not sure I can learn that kind of manouvre by solving puzzles or reading chess books about tactics... but who knows.
For instance, bringing the king to help pass the pawn is strategy or tactics? Because I still did not encounter a tactical exercise with so many moves to understand how to use the king to pass the pawn in a situation like this where we still have a lot of minor pieces which need to be constantly moved, though I did encounter some games on a book section about strategy which give a better idea of how using the king to accomplish this goal. I seriously need to find and study those games again...
''#10 is a tactical exercise. Black attacks Nf2 and threatens a second attack with ...Bf6, so the trick is to save the piece by tactical means and save the draw'' Oh thanks for clarifying. I thought the exercises were about promoting the pawn in a situation where it should be possible to promote.
@DrHack pardon me but I can't understand this notation: ''P@a3 R@b4 K@a1 - k@c5 q@f2''
capitol letters are white pieces @ means "at"
Oh well
Still not sure if I understand that but thanks. It would be very cool if you could post the board here, but anyway thanks!
And regarding the issues I raised to tpr about passing a pawn with the help of the king and other minor pieces vs the king plus minor pieces of an opponent requiring strategy which he mantains it doesn't need any strategy, I guess not being able to pass the pawn in that early phase wouldn't be such a problem when playing if I knew enough about some basic tactics and basic ending tactics, because then I think I would be able to convert at some moment. So I think I will remain solving tactical puzzles on lichess and studying dvoretskys endgame, but I will study dvoretsky very slowly as I think it would be quicker for me to reach the level for playing with other people here if I would focus more on tactical chess endings by John Nunn.
If I can get to understand better at least some of those more basic tactical endings and pawn endings plus some tactics I think I will be good enough to win some games with other not so good players.
@marcelofarias In lichess FEN notation the position is: 8/8/8/2k5/1R6/P7/5q2/K7 w - -
Instead of creating another thread, I would like to ask you guys to help me with this other problem (white to move):
I know it must have something to do with corresponding squares which is basically making more threats than my opponent can handle at once through triangulation and then getting my opponent's king on Zugzwang.
However, despite playing this position with the computer enough to understand it on a more intuitive level, I still think there's something I missed it. Could someone please explain me in a simple way? How can I calculate corresponding squares faster? What are all the features of this position? What exceptions to the rule could happen here?
