This endgame
This position looks fairly drawn to me if both sides play accurately. White's move 25. e6 seems like a mistake. Your centralised rooks are very powerful and your opponent's rooks seem passive. You had the right idea about doubling your rooks, excellent.
Overall, you responded well to your opponents mistakes. He tried to trade off the material for an endgame but failed to account for your queen-side pawn advantage. Nice play.
It is important to note that on move 31, you are under no obligation to break the repetition of moves. If, on move 29, you felt that your best move was 29) ...Rf5+, then it is STILL your best move on move 31, rather than Kg7. If your opponent chooses to repeat again, then he will be giving you the right to claim a draw (which you should take given the material imbalance). If he retreats to the g or e files, you will play Re6 and pick up the e-pawn on your next move.
This position looks fairly drawn to me if both sides play accurately. White's move 25. e6 seems like a mistake. Your centralised rooks are very powerful and your opponent's rooks seem passive. You had the right idea about doubling your rooks, excellent.
Overall, you responded well to your opponents mistakes. He tried to trade off the material for an endgame but failed to account for your queen-side pawn advantage. Nice play.
Yes I asked him about that. He said he wanted to have my rook rather on e6. But I think it gives the same play after I played Re5.
Thank you.
It is important to note that on move 31, you are under no obligation to break the repetition of moves. If, on move 29, you felt that your best move was 29) ...Rf5+, then it is STILL your best move on move 31, rather than Kg7. If your opponent chooses to repeat again, then he will be giving you the right to claim a draw (which you should take given the material imbalance). If he retreats to the g or e files, you will play Re6 and pick up the e-pawn on your next move.
Yes I knew about this. But I felt that I had better chances in this endgame. Or that it would atleast be easier for me to make this a draw then it would be for him. My idea was that I had mobility with the king, while his king was stuck due the pin on the e pawn. Which would allow me to slowly improve my position while he couldn't do anything at all. But it could be that this idea is flawed. Also I was under time stress. And this move would be buy me a little bit time to think, as he had only one good reponse to it. I was down by a lot of time when I reached this position. I had never played against the English opening before so it costed me a lot of time to get out of it with an advantage (and then I blunderd a knight away).
Thanks for you comments both! Any other tips or advices I should look at? Ik now my endgame isn't the strongest in the world.
Almost certainly white should win with an extra piece altough it obviously requires some good technique. I think in the game continuation white played too defensively and you were able to tie his forces in the defens of the e-pawn. Better idea could be to attack yours d-pawn. Even loosing the e3-pawn in the process may not matter that much if white gets the d5 in return as defending that pawn was bit painfull anyway.
White could begin with 25. Rad1 Rxe5 26. Rd3 Kg7 27. Rfd1.
Almost certainly white should win with an extra piece altough it obviously requires some good technique. I think in the game continuation white played too defensively and you were able to tie his forces in the defens of the e-pawn. Better idea could be to attack yours d-pawn. Even loosing the e3-pawn in the process may not matter that much if white gets the d5 in return as defending that pawn was bit painfull anyway.
White could begin with 25. Rad1 Rxe5 26. Rd3 Kg7 27. Rfd1.
So what would you suggest black would do against this? Defending the d pawn seems impossible. And getting the e pawn for the d pawn opens up the position which doesn't seems good for black.
So what would you suggest black would do against this? Defending the d pawn seems impossible. And getting the e pawn for the d pawn opens up the position which doesn't seems good for black.
This is already a more challenging question - defending an inferior position is in general very difficult art. As I said I believe that white should probably win with best play but of course this still needs to be demostrated and meanwhile black should try to make his task as difficult as possible.
I don't wanna spend too much time on this position so I just try to give some general guidelines. One of the most fundamental things is to try to guess white's plan of going about realising his advantage and then see if at some point there is suitable moment to try to distract his actions. In this position it's not so easy to see how to create active counterplay (if you for example advance your pawns there's a risk that the advanced pawns only become weak) - therefore the best policy might be just to stay solid and wait until you are actually forced to react some concrete white plan or there arises some favourable situation (because of white's mistake).
Oh and I'm also unable to see any way to defend that d-pawn so if possible you should try to get that e-pawn in return. But I'm not sure if even that is possible. If white can get a material advantage of bishop against just one pawn and for example a setup where he has a bishop in d5 supported by pawn in e4 then your position may well be resignable. But of course what position is resignable and what not strongly depends on the strength of your opponent, time control etc.