Endgame strategy: "Vancura" structures
8 • AACtrl •- Vancura position (holding draw)
- "Locking" a Vancura
- The second "safe zone"
- Winning but trappy version (critical variation)
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"e5" in QiD structures (wip)
1 • AACtrl •- Atrociously bad
- Just bad
- Looks good but bad?
- Yes-no-maybe-I-don't-know
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Knights endgames
24 • AACtrl •- Let's get N+B out of the way
- Trapping a knight with bishop and knight
- Basic rook vs knight: essential position to learn
- 3 squares away
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I learn the English
1 • AACtrl •- Symetrical
- Reverse Sicilian
- Caro-Kann stuff (center control)
- French structure (thematic tactic)
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Memorable puzzles
1 • AACtrl •- Simple appetizer
- Easy motif to remember
- Smoked king
- Squeezed in the open
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Instructive positions for beginners & intermediates
5 • AACtrl •- Threat and reaction (quiz)
- Threat and reaction (analysis)
- Same again (quiz)
- Same again (analysis)
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Games I don't understand... (for group study maybe)
1 • AACtrl •- Stalling attack
- Modern/Pic pseudo-"150 attack"
- Saragossa
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Most embarrassing games (this is gonna be fun!)
1 • AACtrl •- Unlosable game #4154798 (Berlin defense)
- AACtrl (2019) - Wylli1706 (1880)
- 7 blunders in a row
- Accelerated Danish gambit
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Nc3 in the Nimzo-Larsen (wip)
6 • AACtrl •- To defend against a5-a4
- After castling long
- When e3 can be targeted
- When the long diagonal is blocked
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Owen's defense / QID strategic ideas from games (wip)
1 • AACtrl •- Owen's: 0-0 and hedgehog
- 0-0-0 and kingside pawn attack (weird French)
- Mixing-up
- Stopping short
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Queen vs Rook endgame
6 • AACtrl •- Zugzwang, 4th rank defense and Philidor
- Messy 4th to 3rd to 2nd rank defense
- Another 4th to 3rd - "artificial" method to know
- More 4th rank defense - start to finish
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Converting a draw
1 • AACtrl •- Breaking down in time trouble
- Instructive "fizzled out" situation
- Smallest triangle (Queen & pawns)
- Down one (Rook & pawns)
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Time trouble breakdown
1 • AACtrl •- HowHorseyMoves - AACtrl
- AACtrl - RedzoneNova
- AACtrl - KnightFury21
- AACtrl (1948) - handsomemoney (2047)
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Strategy toolbox
11 • AACtrl •- All tied-up in a winning position
- Breaking in the center
- Activity >>> pawns
- Passive-looking tidy-up move
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