your choice of an endgame

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there are 5 choices of an endgame, which one is your favorite? which one is your least favorite? you can list the numbers in order from favorite to least favorite.

1. Queen vs Rook

2. Bishop + Knight vs lone King

3. 3 pawn vs 2 pawn (no passed pawn)

4.Queen vs pawn on 7th rank (non bishop or rook file)

5.Rook + pawn vs Bishop (or knight) [pawn is not attacked and king is close enough to protect the pawn]

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well, i will go first - 4,5,3,1,2

i know the idea of the Queen vs pawn on 7th rank, all i have to do is to kick the king to block the path of the pawn and get the king closer.

Rook + pawn vs Bishop (or Knight), it's really easy as long as my king if close enough, just push the pawn while it's safe and promote

3 pawn vs 2 pawn, sometimes it's hard, because you need to calculate right, or you might draw that.

Queen vs Rook, it's much harder, i've got to puzzles here with this http://www.chessvideos.tv/endgame-training/queen-vs-rook-ii-24.php

http://www.chessvideos.tv/endgame-training/queen-vs-rook-finish-6.php

Bishop and Knight vs lone King. It's extremely hard for me, i know try the get the knight into the corner which has the same color of the bishop( for example, if the bishop is in black square, than try to kick the king to a1 or h8), but i don't know how to kick the king, it's a really hard checkmate.

I also have 2 interesting endgames from chessvideos.tv, both are 2 knight vs pawn (2 knight can checkmate oppoment's king)http://www.chessvideos.tv/endgame-training/two-2-knights-vs-pawn-12.php http://www.chessvideos.tv/endgame-training/two-knights-vs-pawn-ii-17.php   let's see if you can do these. ^_^

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4,1,5,3,2

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4 is easy,my plan is like wuzhe's,1 is kinda easy,just seperate the king from the rook and make a fork,5 is medium,just same as wuzhe,3 is hard, i think you should trade 1 or more pair(s) and use a passed pawn to promote(and win),2 is sooooooo hard,i had a game B+N vs king,i had the B+N and drew