You know, I have my reasons for being annoyed with kco, but you people who just pop up with new accounts waiting for kco to post a comment so you can make fun of him, is just bizarre. Y'all have to let it go. He's totally in your head. You're driving yourselves nuts thinking about kco.
What were your "Aha!" Moments in your chess development?
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Dec 19, 2013
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I had an aha moment watching a game once. The black player was down a pawn in a semingly hopeless endgame.
Looking on I would have had no idea how to proceed. Although I was probably about the same rating he was. But he thought only a moment, confidently went into a confusing combination, then sacrifeced his bishop for a pawn. I looked, he had only a bare king left, white had a bishop and a rook pawn. But it was "wrong-color rook pawn!" The game was instantly agred a draw!
That was when I realized endgames were about "building blocks" Understanding the simpler known positions, to make sense of the complucated ones.
In that game, the pkayer visualized the drawing position he needed to reach, and figured out a way to get there, from the position that was on the board.
This one experience has influenced my endgame study ever since.
He didn't do it, kco did it;)