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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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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Modern defense for black
1 • AACtrl •- My reference game...
- Got it all wrong but survived
- Begining to understand some?
- Oh, nevermind
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Lessons from otb tournament
1 • AACtrl •- Winning rook endgame: keep pawns, take distance, protect the lowest pawn
- Never trust your opponent, never go back
- Don't break pawn tension or push too many pawns too early
- V structure (make W!)
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Dealing with e5 in Kan/Paulsen sicilians (wip)
1 • AACtrl •- Closed sicilian with early Nc3
- Kan 5.Bf3 (modern)
- Offbeat Nimzo-Indian
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Beautiful tactics from games
1 • AACtrl •- Simple knight trap
- Pin breaker
- French tactic
- Strong pawn sac
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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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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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Memorable puzzles
1 • AACtrl •- Simple appetizer
- Easy motif to remember
- Smoked king
- Squeezed in the open
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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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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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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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Games I don't understand... (for group study maybe)
1 • AACtrl •- Stalling attack
- Modern/Pic pseudo-"150 attack"
- Saragossa
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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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