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Re: Whats your favorites
Reply #7 - 01/03/16 at 19:15:47
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fling wrote on 12/22/15 at 20:51:19:
As for the questions, I like bishop vs knight because of the imbalance - short vs long range, the possibility to control two color complexes with the knight but only one at a time etc (you could use some examples from Timman's Power Chess with Pieces, btw). Adding rooks or queens is also interesting.


Thanks. I do not have that book but agree that knight vs bishop is very instructive (the Gligoric - Trifunovic game is a good example in which the Knight is actually stronger). I may make a few to illustrate the different quality of the K and B in different situations - maybe Fischers win with Bishop against Knight against Spassky. 

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Gut Gambit wrote on 12/23/15 at 21:06:05:
I notice that several of your game examples is covered in: "The Greatest Ever chess endgames", by Steve Giddins.  A book of 50 games, 233 pages.  

Dont know about the quality of this book, but I thought maybe these (classic) endgames could be a good place to start for the kids...?

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I already have another Giddins endgame book (101 endgame tips - golden nuggets of endgame wisdom) and have used it for inspiration which may be the reason some games from the other book occur. I think you are right some of the Classic endgames is a good place to start for the kids. If you have some specific games in mind and a few Words why you find them fascinating, I will appreciate it. 

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Re: Whats your favorites
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ReneDescartes wrote on 01/03/16 at 01:30:21:
Spassky-Fischer (13), WCh 1972. Even Botvinnik called Fischer's idea,  to obtain five passed pawns by allowing his own rook to be placed in a prison camp of two squares in Siberia, something completely unheard-of.
It's amazing to watch Fischer's intuitive assessment of this entirely unknown and bizarre scenario be borne out.


Truley a fascinating endgame. I will use it, thanks. Many learning points: Opposite coloured bishops with rooks, pawn race / value of passed pawns, uneven material, and  unconventional and concrete thinking in the endgame. 

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Spassky-Fischer (13), WCh 1972. Even Botvinnik called Fischer's idea,  to obtain five passed pawns by allowing his own rook to be placed in a prison camp of two squares in Siberia, something completely unheard-of.
It's amazing to watch Fischer's intuitive assessment of this entirely unknown and bizarre scenario be borne out.
  
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Re: Whats your favorites
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I notice that several of your game examples is covered in: "The Greatest Ever chess endgames", by Steve Giddins.  A book of 50 games, 233 pages.  

Dont know about the quality of this book, but I thought maybe these (classic) endgames could be a good place to start for the kids...?

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As for the questions, I like bishop vs knight because of the imbalance - short vs long range, the possibility to control two color complexes with the knight but only one at a time etc (you could use some examples from Timman's Power Chess with Pieces, btw). Adding rooks or queens is also interesting.
  
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Reply #1 - 12/22/15 at 20:49:02
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Maybe Tomashevsky's win the other day in a knight endgame with 4 vs 3 pawns? Was is a draw with best play, or a win? No matter what, very nicely played I think.
  
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12/22/15 at 18:13:10
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Hi

Im doing a serie of strategic endgames on youtube for kids (in danish). So fare I have made 11 (app 5 - 20 min each). No real structure in how I select. Just endgames with instructive value and "x-factor". 

Please help with a little inspiration - What are your favorite strategical endgames? And why do you find them fascinating?

so fare i have made vids of:

Cohn - Rubinstein 1909 (yep, that pawn endgame)
Capa - Tartakower 1924 (yep that rook endgame)
Tal - Lisitin 1956
Tartakower - French 1933
Zenyuk - Foisor (dont remember year)
Marshall - Lasker 1907
Larsen - Penrose 1969
Gligoric - Trifunovic 1948
Thomas - Tartakower 1945
Polgar - Pantsulaia 2013
Fressinet - Grandelius 2015

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