Hello everyone,

recently I played a tournmant where strangly enough 6 out of 9 games went into endgames, I won a drawn rook endgame after my oppenent blundered, however, I drew a winning postion, and lost another (winning position), and I also lost a drawn endgame with 2 Bishops and a Knight vs 2Bishops and a knight.

here are the games

can any masters and experts here tell me what can I do to improve my endgame play?

I have a sugestion...

It seams that, besides material advantage or disadvantage, your king is always misplaced or vulnerable and, or it can't help the endgame or it becomes a weakness for your defence and the oponent is able to penetrate. My rating is way lower than yours, but in these cases your king's positioning was rather weak (I don't have a better term).

In the first position the king stays constantly on the other side of the table.

In the second, you move the king back, giving the position to the adversary.

On the third, assuming a draw, you didn't have a defence. The rook's went to the attack and the black should have tried to exchange pieces. Even rook+bishop vs. queen. And the pawns would do the rest.

I suggest you train premade games against the computer (the most dificult is 2 bishops and king vs. king), and keep the king active (just the enough) in the endgame :)

Otherwise, you can always search for specific endgames for practice. Only practice and will gets us were we want.

Good luck

Hoped it helped

Your treatment of the same color bishops ending was indeed awful. You had the pawns on the wrong color complex! Remember, do not concede any targets to the opponent in a same color bishops ending! You want the GOOD bishop, not the BAD one!

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