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Endgame strategy: "Vancura" structures

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  1. Vancura position (holding draw)
  2. "Locking" a Vancura
  3. The second "safe zone"
  4. Winning but trappy version (critical variation)
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"e5" in QiD structures (wip)

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  1. Atrociously bad
  2. Just bad
  3. Looks good but bad?
  4. Yes-no-maybe-I-don't-know
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Knights endgames

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  1. Let's get N+B out of the way
  2. Trapping a knight with bishop and knight
  3. Basic rook vs knight: essential position to learn
  4. 3 squares away
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I learn the English

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  1. Symetrical
  2. Reverse Sicilian
  3. Caro-Kann stuff (center control)
  4. French structure (thematic tactic)
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Never resign!

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  1. Mate-in-one
  2. Unexplainable
  3. Double attack, one defense
  4. Royal skeewer
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Memorable puzzles

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  1. Simple appetizer
  2. Easy motif to remember
  3. Smoked king
  4. Squeezed in the open
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Instructive positions for beginners & intermediates

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  1. Threat and reaction (quiz)
  2. Threat and reaction (analysis)
  3. Same again (quiz)
  4. Same again (analysis)
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Games I don't understand... (for group study maybe)

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  1. Stalling attack
  2. Modern/Pic pseudo-"150 attack"
  3. Saragossa
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Most embarrassing games (this is gonna be fun!)

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  1. Unlosable game #4154798 (Berlin defense)
  2. AACtrl (2019) - Wylli1706 (1880)
  3. 7 blunders in a row
  4. Accelerated Danish gambit
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Nc3 in the Nimzo-Larsen (wip)

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  1. To defend against a5-a4
  2. After castling long
  3. When e3 can be targeted
  4. When the long diagonal is blocked
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Owen's defense / QID strategic ideas from games (wip)

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  1. Owen's: 0-0 and hedgehog
  2. 0-0-0 and kingside pawn attack (weird French)
  3. Mixing-up
  4. Stopping short
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Queen vs Rook endgame

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  1. Zugzwang, 4th rank defense and Philidor
  2. Messy 4th to 3rd to 2nd rank defense
  3. Another 4th to 3rd - "artificial" method to know
  4. More 4th rank defense - start to finish
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Converting a draw

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  1. Breaking down in time trouble
  2. Instructive "fizzled out" situation
  3. Smallest triangle (Queen & pawns)
  4. Down one (Rook & pawns)
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Time trouble breakdown

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  1. HowHorseyMoves - AACtrl
  2. AACtrl - RedzoneNova
  3. AACtrl - KnightFury21
  4. AACtrl (1948) - handsomemoney (2047)
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Strategy toolbox

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  1. All tied-up in a winning position
  2. Breaking in the center
  3. Activity >>> pawns
  4. Passive-looking tidy-up move
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Basic endgame trainer - Part 1 (rook and pawn)

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  1. Rp-R (Easy)
  2. Rp-R (Easy)
  3. Rp-R (Easy the second time)
  4. Rp-R (Normal)
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