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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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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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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Rook + Bishop vs Rook
9 • AACtrl •- Philidor technique (with mnemonics)
- Same color squares trick
- Using forcing and waiting moves
- Szén position
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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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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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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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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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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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Defensive moves
4 • AACtrl •- "Feel good" blunder
- Scary kingside attack (Ecclesiastic)
- King in the wind (supermaths)
- Just trade (Ehmeed)
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Bishop and pawn endgame
4 • AACtrl •- Bishop + pawn vs pawn
- Bishop + pawn vs Bishop (rook pawn)
- Stalemate trick
- Defense from behind (knight pawn)
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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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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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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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