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I keep missing endgame tactics

@WinOr10PushUps , "Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual" is on my list too, but after Capablanca and the other grand masters I will go with Yuri Averbakh before even considering crushing my mind with Dvoretsky's masterpiece. Averbakh has 5 books dedicated to different end game scenarios. :)

Check them:

www.thriftbooks.com/a/yuri-averbakh/274122/

In the game that you showed, it was actually knight + pawn endgame and his knight could have been deadly, ironically due to your isolated h pawn.

About the passed pawns - it looks so only if you allow the idea of pieces being ranked by the standard: "knight = bishop = 3, rook = 5 and so on" to be imprinted as a habit. I was happy and free the moment I started to question that and allow myself to explore unsound and unbalanced things or positions. I saw an important grand master idea - Kasparov in the next video (one of my favorite) shows that he thinks more about the number of attacking/defending pieces and mating the opponent rather than "if I sacrifice a bishop, I need at least 3 pawns". Sometimes even Capablanca sacrifice a pawn or two for positional advantage or creating passed pawn(s) unreachable for the enemy king.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMe-hvCwTRo

Keep up the good work! :)
I'm not sure that "endgame tactics" are quite as important as learning how to play endgames. ;)
@WinOr10PushUps
To train you can choose endgame puzzles in puzzle themes. The best way to train to make fewer blunders is to make 10 push ups for each blunder. This way you try harder to make fewer blunders to avoid dying from way too many push ups.
Imagine having to do 10 push ups for every failed puzzle. This is impossible!

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