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Let's study some endgame
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Dec 15, 2021
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One of strongest things you can do, not only in an endgame, but in chess in general, is to use your opponent's pieces against him, mostly his pawns: 42.Kc5 - my king can easily advance and squeeze the enemy king with pawns and a rook - because he hides behind Black's c5 pawn - he cannot get "checked". (the computer calls 42.Kc5 an inaccuracy, but he's just jealous, and don't trust him - he's using an engine).
* 2 connected passed-pawns are enough to give mate (without queening):
https://www.chess.com/forum/view/game-showcase/my-best-game-on-chess-com-so-far#comment-63307787
Besides, trying to checkmate while your opponent runs after pawns, is a good strategy - sometimes he makes a queen, and then I give mate - generally mate is faster than queening.
Creating a "pawn-basket" to your king against checks from rooks, is a good strategy, it even works against checks from queens if you calculate the queen's 'checks':
https://www.chess.com/forum/view/endgames/not-every-check-is-good
The king & Basket duo generally needs to go up the board.
In these levels, they play a Benoni and Grunfeld as well - which I barely face, so the opening and middlegame was sort of, lousy. But an endgame is an endgame.
I think that what won me the game, is creating a clear path to my king - 35.f3
He has 2 passed-pawns, a rook behind them, and he lost... why? I think it's because he can only get behind one of them, and if he pushes it, the other will be captured ("who cares - just keep pushing" is an option if his b-pawn was on b4 (=for him - the 5th rank), but it's still on b5, so, no - I capture the c pawn, return, and enslave my rook his pawn-&-rook until Mr. King comes to put things in order).
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Besides - I have a staff and he doesn't... what can he do?!
Moses had a staff, and so shall you.
An ever greater staff than my own - against a snake:
Minute 8:40 - "The principle of two weaknesses" - never heard of it, interesting.
There's also the "Great Snake Variation" against 1.c4, but I don't play c4.