Of course, overall I am quite bad at endgames myself in my view, and especially in my coach's view, I still believe I have something that I can teach in endgames. To begin with I want to point out one thing about the game I will show today: connected doubled pawns are not weaknesses. If attacked, they will be defended by the other pawn. The point of this lesson is to show how dominating your opponent's pieces can really help you (and also a little about how the B becomes better than the N as I dominated the N from such a huge range with it).
Ok, so now we will begin looking at the game. The game was a minor piece endgame as you will see. Minor piece endings will only really start creating huge complications and imbalances if one of the minor pieces is a B as the B has a huge range, but cannot see half the board. My opponent actually happened to be nationally recognised in Eng one time (and I happened to play him in a chess.com game accidentally XD), but it shows that by being good with your endgames, you can outplay your opp and successfully win the game if you both suffered resistance in the middle game.
So, to begin with, look at the following position:
Of course, black has inactive Ns, but even so, passive defense is still usually enough to draw endgames (though active defense is often better). If not for the b and a pawns for both sides, the position is drawn despite such passive positions for the N. However, with the a and b pawns, the Ns may easily be tied down to these pawns. When you have a B v N, it is often a good idea to get your opponent to push and fix their pawns on the same colour as your B. After a few moves (my opponent played quite innacurately and left his pawns on light squares which is why I will not make it a puzzle [eval changed over those moves from +1 to +2.1]), I was very much winning:
As you can see, their N is tied down now thanks to the B. They tried to activate the other N but it went quite badly and though I played slightly inaccurately, I was completely winning and eventually won the game after getting low on time (there are so many people who keep trying to flag me...):
But overall, I wanted to show how dominating minor pieces in minor pieces can help quite a lot, especially with a B in hand.
Hi there,
Of course, overall I am quite bad at endgames myself in my view, and especially in my coach's view, I still believe I have something that I can teach in endgames. To begin with I want to point out one thing about the game I will show today: connected doubled pawns are not weaknesses. If attacked, they will be defended by the other pawn. The point of this lesson is to show how dominating your opponent's pieces can really help you (and also a little about how the B becomes better than the N as I dominated the N from such a huge range with it).
Ok, so now we will begin looking at the game. The game was a minor piece endgame as you will see. Minor piece endings will only really start creating huge complications and imbalances if one of the minor pieces is a B as the B has a huge range, but cannot see half the board. My opponent actually happened to be nationally recognised in Eng one time (and I happened to play him in a chess.com game accidentally XD), but it shows that by being good with your endgames, you can outplay your opp and successfully win the game if you both suffered resistance in the middle game.
So, to begin with, look at the following position:
Of course, black has inactive Ns, but even so, passive defense is still usually enough to draw endgames (though active defense is often better). If not for the b and a pawns for both sides, the position is drawn despite such passive positions for the N. However, with the a and b pawns, the Ns may easily be tied down to these pawns. When you have a B v N, it is often a good idea to get your opponent to push and fix their pawns on the same colour as your B. After a few moves (my opponent played quite innacurately and left his pawns on light squares which is why I will not make it a puzzle [eval changed over those moves from +1 to +2.1]), I was very much winning:
As you can see, their N is tied down now thanks to the B. They tried to activate the other N but it went quite badly and though I played slightly inaccurately, I was completely winning and eventually won the game after getting low on time (there are so many people who keep trying to flag me...):
But overall, I wanted to show how dominating minor pieces in minor pieces can help quite a lot, especially with a B in hand.