🚨 CRITICAL Chess Endgame Lesson 🚨

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Published 2024-03-04

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  • @rotatingmind
    Endgame is fascinating and completely underrated.
  • This looks like an endgame study which is composed by Grand Masters, but this is from a real game, how fascinating.
  • @niravapurv4578
    you asked the other day what kind of videos to make, that we like. I mainliy like this.. very good instructional stuff. When i see a tumnail with a chess board with 150 pawns and 16 knights, i am very unlikely to watch that video.. but when there ar endgame instructive positions, puzzle training of live games with instructive commentatory. I love it.. and you are very good at it. This went strait into a study of zugzwang possitions that i will use for schooling on a lower (b group) club player level.
  • @user-ej7sr3ow8b
    By the way, another tricky fact of king and pawn endgame is that it often converts into queen and 7-th rank pawn endgame, in which your opponent's extra pawn may help you to win
  • @RikMaxSpeed
    Thanks for a super overview of how complex pawn end-games are!
  • @tom-kz9pb
    It is a good lesson about basic endgames. Even at a glance, would never have assumed a draw. It's all about tempi, opposition of kings, zugzwang, penetration and pawn races.
  • Thanks v much Nelson ! The more info the better , much appreciated !
  • @RikMaxSpeed
    A perfect illustration of why end-game databases are required as this is way too much to compute in real-time when clearing the board of all pieces!
  • 00:00 my instict immediately told me b4 has the be the move as it is the one that capitalizes on all of white’s best assets. b4 does the following things: Block black’s pawn island on a and b files Maintains flexibility because allows the a pawn to “skip” a turn. Blocks the most “infiltrating” squares for black.
  • @WarpRulez
    Endgames, including pawn endgames, can be enormously complicated and tricky. Much, much trickier than this. Some time ago I purchased Dvoretsky's "Endgame manual", 5th edition, without realizing that it's actually an IM/GM level book, not a book for a medium-strength player like me. Many of the endgame problems there are astonishingly difficult, even though they often comprise of just a few pawns. It's actually incredible how complicated chess can be even with just a few pieces.
  • @hreedwork
    Fantastic instruction. Thank you!! 😎👍🙏
  • @Jouzou87
    I found the move because I've been training similar positions. Do your puzzles, folks. They really make a difference.
  • @kamilkp
    I was able to recently slowly and methodically outplay an opponent in a very similar endgame and it felt so satisfying after a 30 mins long rapid game. Great tips as always Nelson!!
  • @bluefin.64
    Great stuff. I created a Lichess study out of it. I've been studying pawn endgames and this video was a wonderful lesson for review.