Practical endgame strategy (from games)
2 • AACtrl •- Early endgame zugzwang
- King safety, always!
- Forget about king safety!
- Catching a passed pawn
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First steps into Czech Benoni
1 • AACtrl •- Pawndercover (2281) - AACtrl (1960)
- ngducphu (2031) - AACtrl (1991)
- rsandzimier (1942) - AACtrl (2008)
- Haspelknecht (2006) - AACtrl (1985)
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Incorrect greek gifts
3 • AACtrl •- Speelman - Tal
- Colle - O'Hanlon
- Kasparov vs Deep Junior (2003)
- Bachmann (2652 Fide) - Levin (2507 Fide)
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Beautiful tactics from games
1 • AACtrl •- Simple knight trap
- Pin breaker
- French tactic
- Strong pawn sac
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Nimzo-Larsen \o/
3 • AACtrl •- c5-d5: typical plan
- Subtelties in the moves order
- Very instructive otb game
- Another highly instructive otb game
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Defensive moves
4 • AACtrl •- "Feel good" blunder
- Scary kingside attack (Ecclesiastic)
- King in the wind (supermaths)
- Just trade (Ehmeed)
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Advanced Rook & pawn vs Rook
3 • AACtrl •- Simple warm-up tactic
- Lucena conversion: must-know double trap
- "Fake" version of same trap
- Roosted rook trap
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Learning the hedgehog (les leçons du hérisson)
8 • AACtrl •- Typical (dream) hedgehog
- X-ray trap (typical knight sac)
- It happens to FMs too!
- Again and again...
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Quick endgame brillancies (from games)
1 • AACtrl •- White to play and draw
- White to win
- Black to win
- Black to win
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Qa5+ in the Nimzo-Larsen
2 • AACtrl •- French structure (c5, d5, Nc6, e6)
- French Be7 without Nc6 (Qa5+ then Bb4)
- Here comes Ne4!
- Bb4+ first
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Basic endgame trainer - Part 1 (rook and pawn)
17 • AACtrl •- Rp-R (Easy)
- Rp-R (Easy)
- Rp-R (Easy the second time)
- Rp-R (Normal)
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Rook + pawn vs Bishop
4 • AACtrl •- Rook-pawn vs "good" bishop (1)
- R-pawn vs "good" bishop (2)
- R-pawn vs "good" bishop (3)
- R-pawn vs "bad" bishop (1): pin
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