Which minor pieces is best for the end game?
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Generally a bishop is better than a knight in open positions where the pawns are on both sides of the board. Knights are better when the endgame position is clogged up on one side. However, if you have the two bishops, this is USUALLY a huge endgame advantage and you should strive to keep them. Hope this helps you with the endgame :)
Jun 16, 2016
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Silman agrees with DurTeeDan:
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RULE 9--Knights are superior to Bishops in an
endgame if all the pawns are on one side of the
board. This is because the Bishop's long-range
powers no longer have meaning while the Knight's
ability to go to either color square means that there
is no safe haven for the enemy King or pawns.
Silman, Jeremy. 1999. The Amateur's Mind: Turning Chess Misconceptions into Chess Mastery, 2nd Edition/Expanded. Los Angeles, CA: Siles Press.
It depends on how much you understand, and how much you blunder.
Already an all-time classic- every serious chess student should care to learn something from white's play. The utltimate textbook example on the power of the bishop pair. Carlsen made his single mistake in that endgame towards the very end, when he was very short of time (69.f6?) but Nakamura, being on the ropes for the whole game, failed to spot the resulting positional draw, and we cannot blame him for that.
Another game, which deservedly is not a textbook example of anything. White certainly had some advantage with his bishop pair, although the position should be holdable with correct play by black. Grivas (who wasn't a Grandmaster yet) allowed me to make things easier by letting me exchange my "good" bishop for his knight, and then having two bishops against two knights played a couple of bad moves, and fell in a lost position. I returned the favour at move 33, but both players being short on time, he failed to take advantage.
I guess the right answer to the O.P.'s question is the usual one: who blunders less, has the advantage.
A pawn. If it's about to promote! 
Hi there.
I've been struggling with the choice of which minor piece or pieces is best fo the end game. In my mind I believe that a single Knight is better in the end game than a single bishop. But 2 bishops are better against a single Knight.
Keeping a knight means you can still be a threat to any piece where a single bishop can only attack on it's own coloured square. Two bishops mean you can still juggle them around and be a threat to both coloured squares.
What is the general concensus to which peices to try and keep?