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Hi. I just posted in my blog an analysis of these two endings. If somebody is interested the links are below: https://www.chess.com/blog/catalanFischer/endgame-q-vs-r-p https://www.chess.com/blog/catalanFischer/endgame-q-vs-r

King + Queen vs King + Rook Have anybody played that ending? Does anybody know how to procced and win that ending? Please share your experiences.

As you know very well, our current Super Admin, @CaptainJimTKirk has been offline for over 4 years, with the current admin offline for only a few months shorter than that. For this reason, we must vote on a new Super Admin that will replace our current one. We need someone who is very active and can work hard for the club. We have one candidate @catalanFischer, who has claimed to be another account of the person who was the First Super Admin of this club, the one who created it. I personally wish to only take up the responsibility of Admin in this club. Do we have any other candidates for the role of the new Super Admin of this club, and if so, could you please inform me as to why you would be suitable for the position in this forum. We will discuss potential candidate for at least 10 days before voting on who will take on the role. We will then inform Chess.com support and in due course, our inactive super admin will be replaced with an active one. Thank you.

So I keep hearing that Rook endgames are really hard for everyone, even grandmasters. I also have heard that king and pawn endgames are horrendously complicated sometimes. Then there's queen endgames, which often have long variations with many, many options. I get that endgames are hard....but can anyone try to rank the basic endgames in complexity and difficulty?

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http://www.chess.com/echess/game?id=103349262 I'm sure this is won for white at move 39 due to the protected passed pawn. I think the whole plan of 43. Kd3 moving to the queenside was where I went wrong. 43. g4 was the other plan I was considering as black can't hold the blockade, but both looked equally winning to me, so I picked one. I had counted on black's king running to g2, not sticking around to defend c5, and when I did evaluate that, while I saw the trebuchet, I completely overlooked that black had one more tempo he could waste with ..f4, and that was that. Thoughts welcome, and I can provide lines I was looking at if anyone is curious.

So my brother played this game recently and I thought it'd be a good one to post. Is the final position a draw? Was it a black win at move 41? If so, at what point did black blow the win?

First, solve this (I don't remember the author) : Then, this is a game I just played (check the lines that differ from the study to get analysis)

Being able to "make a triangle" with your king is a very important concept in King+Pawns VS King+Pawns endgames. Sometimes, having a square to make the triangle can make a difference between a won position and a drawn one. For example, I was able to won this game because my opponent couldn't make the triangle:

My opponent didn't know how to play this endgame. When the major piece exchanges began at 30)...RxRe1, I had only 20 seconds remaining, and he had two minutes. Nonetheless, he foolishly let me simplify into a (winning) King and Pawn endgame. Nothing Fancy. Very Simple. Game in 15/5. White lost on time, but he was in Zugzwang. Endgame Knowledge lets you implement your ideas RAPIDLY. Often times, it can be very effective at Quick Chess speeds.

Playing an endgame requires time, and when you can't take your time you normally blundrer, like I did in that game. I reached an endgame where I had a rook and an extra pawn, and my opponent had a Knight and a Bishop. If you were to play that endgame, which side would you choose? If I could choose, I think I'd pick the side with the Bishop and the Knight. Even though the bishop can't cover the dark squares and the knight has a short range, 2 pieces offer more flexibility than one.

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In a 10 min game, I run in that position after a boring rook endgame. There were about 2-3 min left for each of us (poor time management). I did not realized until now how the idea in the title (to hide the king behind opponent pawns) could become real in endgame. In the diagram position, after that long endgame with many (justified) draw offers my opponent rejeted, I almost played the drawish Rg7 ? to get a faster draw by trading pawns : why keep laying that annoying game ? That's just Philidor's position with one more pawn for the defender... But I eventually saw "the" winning move (I suspect many moves win here, but all must have the same idea). I can only recommend you to check all the lines if you are not familiar with rook endgames. You need to know about Philidor's position, why it's drawn - you can find it on wikipedia.

The variation after 34...Qe6

I am currently learning the grunfeld, and am interested in learning some of the endings that arise where black has a queenside majority and white has a central majority. If anyone has any ideas or examples of this ending they would be greatly appreciated.

In this game (a 3' blitz game), both my opponent and me ended up with the 2 rooks and some pawns. We played an interesting endgame, where I won using the "bridge" technique after a pair of rooks was traded: I'm not good at endgames (specially at rook endgames), so any help will be appreciated.

This is the winning idea that my opponant thankfully missed in a recent game I played at a 90-30 time control on ICC. Houdini showed me the idea during my post-mortem of the game, and it was a revelation to me.

Hello everyone! I will be posting endgame puzzles below, so enjoy and I hope these prove to be useful! ~ CalbaMan

Post any strategies, ideas, or any game that involves the bishop, knight, and king vs. king endgame in this forum.

Here is a position I reached in a recent live chess endgame. Both I and my opponent played the endgame inaccurately (not mentioning the middlegame !), giving each other won positions, but I won by finding the right move here. For the other one, I use the standard evaluation for endgames : ! means that any other move loses at least half a point, ? loses half a point and ?? goes from win to loss. A tricky position from an OTB game yesterday. Can you evaluate the position ? And can you find the right move order ? Don't look at the lines before thinking, that's instructive, but as there are many lines a puzzle is rather inappropriate.