Endgame Practice?

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I've read books about the endgame and learned about it but is there a good way to get actual endgame experience? Is it just to play games? The problem is that there aren't many endgames when I play but when there are I'm in time pressure and I can't remember all of the little rules in time. Maybe the better are at it, the easier you remember the rules? Do you play blitz games for experience there?

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Ok, but how exactly could we do that? Set up a position ourselves maybe?

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When endgame ideas are properly embedded in your skull, you don't need to remember the rules, you will play perfect chess instantaneously and without thought.

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You guys can play live chess..

or online chess with moveback options

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Nytik wrote:

When endgame ideas are properly embedded in your skull, you don't need to remember the rules, you will play perfect chess instantaneously and without thought.


For me, in a recent tournament game I know that if I had plenty of time on my clock I could recall what to do. So I've learned the rules at some point but I have to really think about them to recall them in a game. But some kind of practice would probably help besisdes just studying harder.

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Setting up is good, but I don't know if you can have games with a setup position here.

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Yeah, that's the book I use. But there aren't many positions with lots of pawns, usually just one or two. Those are the building blocks I know, but still I'm not getting much practice in more likely rook endgames or any for that matter but rook endgames are by far the toughest or at least most common.

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