I guess the question is essentially, how to make a winning plan quickly with black in the position below
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Black to move
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For any position, the simple answer is that you need experience to play good moves quickly. You rely on the patterns in your long term memory.
Here's one basic idea for the above position. Black has a queenside pawn majority. To stop black from queening, white will need to use his king. Therefore white's king is stuck on the queenside, and a simple winning plan is like this:
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I think there's another instructive point later in the game. In general you want your king to clear a path for your pawn. Black was winning right up until the end, but a common mistake in various king and pawn endgames is to have your pawn in front of your king. In the variations below, I show when black missed an opportunity to put his king in front of the pawn and clear a path to queening:
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Another quick example below
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Once you play tons of games, and analyze positions, and see certain ideas over and over they get into your long term memory so in a blitz or bullet game you can do these things without having to stop and think about them.
To recap, a few useful ideas to remember:
- Use your pawn majority as a decoy so your king can gobble up pawns on the other side
- You want your king in front of your pawn so that it can clear a path to queening
- You only need one of your pawns to queen! So sacrificing others to draw away defenders is fine.
We 900-1000s really struggle at the end of the game. Countless mistakes happened. Is there anyway to make our decisions better in these quick blitz games. Especially, the sad part, people will throw blitz games from 2 pawns close to promoting and end up losing.