Bishops

Recently I have learned that a single knight is better than a single bishop in the end game because the knight can move between colors. I have played to achieve this advantage in a few games and when I have I have won every time I didn't make a stupid blunder to mess it up.

However, it is said and seems obvious that two bishops would be a significant advantage because you control both colors. But I don't understand how to exploit that advantage. Everytime I get a bishop pair I seem to wind up losing one of them in a forced trade or they seem to be clunky and not work well together. The bishop pair seems very hard to keep and use effectively. Many times a person ends up retreating because someone is threating their bishop pair, so it becomes a weakness.

Can someone show me an example of how to exploit the two bishop advantage in the middle game and the end game?

You could always search the chess.com articles for information, but I haven't seen anything on bishop pair endgames.

Are you good at bishop pair exploitation?

Please take the podium and teach.

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1302216

i think the above game demonstrates the bishop pair power to an adequate degree.

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1007957

the collection i found it in

No way!

That was a good one. Thanks!

I guess you need the bishops unobstructed with plenty of space in the center of the board to make them effective.