It's not easy for anyone I think... maybe GMs who begin the endgame with 2 hours on their clock have no problems, but for the rest of us...
Here are some basics I explain with my previous llama account:
Pawn ending with many pawns
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It's not easy for anyone I think... maybe GMs who begin the endgame with 2 hours on their clock have no problems, but for the rest of us...
Here are some basics I explain with my previous llama account:
This is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you so much!
Yeah I'm pretty sure even if I know about it I'll still mess it all up. At least I won't just go at it randomly 
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What people miss on pawn endings is that they vary wildly on degree of difficulty. Some an 1100 player solves in his sleep while GMs stumble over a hard one. And it is hard to know which is which when you see a diagram. Some endings with K+2P vs K+1P are a lot harder than others with 6 pawns on both sides. So you will need to learn pawn endings gradually through books and online courses. It is very handy to find a collection of kindergarten (pawn-only) endgame studies and study them. Almost all knowledge you need is somewhere in the collection of composed pawn endings! The pinnacle of pawn knowledge is probably the theory of "corresponding squares". Once you got that under your belt, you can meet and beat the GMs in this arena!
And then there is still the ogre behind the curtain. Close pawn endings may lead to queen endings with queens on both sides. This is a subject all by itself and it is extremely complicated. Aiming to win, avoid those endgames unless you are several pawns up, have a strong passed pawn or can force an advantageous exchange of queens. And be prepared to face long series of checks against your king. It's OK when they are not truly perpetual.
I'm always having trouble calculating pawn play when it's a final king pawn vs king pawn, but with lots of pawns. It seems to lot of time end up being about who ends up doing the last available pawn move. I'm really bad at it and just always go randomly about it.
My question: Is there a chess field of study for these kind of situation? Does it have a name..? Or it's just king pawn endings? When I look into king pawn endings it's pretty much always a couple of pawns.
To illustrate what I'm saying, a situation like this occurs in this game by move 32-33.
https://www.chess.com/live/game/9224681973