Heavy Piece Endgames |
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Tuesday, 29 November 2011 | ||||
by Natalia Pogonina for her Chess.com Tuesday column Heavy pieces endgames are endgames when only queens and/or rooks and pawns are left on the board. The key factors are space and open files. Controlling a vital open file can be a decisive advantage.
2. Attack a weak or isolated pawn and capture it. Often one can triple pieces targeting the pawn and force the opponent into defending it. Then the pawn becomes pinned, and you can attack the pawn with your own pawn, thus winning it. 3. Attack the opponents king. Heavy pieces are like fierce trolls when it comes to attacking. Two rooks or Q+R are a formidable battering ram team that can break the enemy castle when attacking along the eighth (and sometimes seventh) rank. Applying pressure via files can also be deadly. These heavyweights can also be supported by footmen pawns. 4. Creating a passer and deflecting the opponents forces, followed by attacking the king or winning material. 5. Also dont forget about the option of transforming the position. Sometimes you should trade into a rook or queen endgame. The main dish today will be my game against Salome Melia from the recent European Team Chess Championship. After having played the opening somewhat carelessly I could have ended up in trouble. However, my partner blundered on move 14, so I got a sizeable advantage. After the move 25. Rdg3 I had hardly any time left, and made a few mistakes. Pushing the h-pawn is a well-known resource that aims to weaken the Black pawn chain and open up files for the attack. In mutual time trouble Melia couldnt handle the pressure, so I won the decisive game of the Russia-Georgia match.
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