08 Feb 10
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Originally posted by Ajuinyes but its still relative, you need to look at the specifics, for example if you had bad pawns and a bishop v a knight, again this is determined in the middle, or if you had pawns on only one side of the board.
in the sense that the knight beats the bishop after you traded down to a N vs B endgame
08 Feb 10
Originally posted by robbie carrobieI thought you were joking.you are serious?
yes but its still relative, you need to look at the specifics, for example if you had bad pawns and a bishop v a knight, again this is determined in the middle, or if you had pawns on only one side of the board.
Ok.This knowledge (knowing which ending favors you) upon which you draw to make your middlegame decisions.What is it called?Opening knowledge?
08 Feb 10
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Originally posted by Ajuinits called middle game strategy and dont get wide! and it is not specifically concerned with winning endgames, the example was simply used as an illustration of the advantages which may be forged in the middle game and only latterly realised in the end, for there are other determining factors before the end game ensues which determine the outcome of the game.
I thought you were joking.you are serious?
Ok.This knowledge (knowing which ending favors you) upon which you draw to make your middlegame decisions.What is it called?Opening knowledge?
08 Feb 10
Originally posted by heinzkatI don't check maths. I check Kings.
Recheck your math
In the tournament I'm playing in I started with a grade of 1960
I've won 9, drawn 3, Lost 0 and my grade has gone down 🙂
I'm sandbagging by accident.
Speaking of which, did you notice this.
http://www.chess.co.uk/twic/chessnews/events/moscow-open-2010
Alexei Gubajdullin has been booted out of a Russian tournament for doing just that.
08 Feb 10
Originally posted by greenpawn34So first he loses heaps of rating points and then he is barred from playing tournaments to get his rating back up? The life of a chess player...
I don't check maths. [b] I check Kings.
In the tournament I'm playing in I started with a grade of 1960
I've won 9, drawn 3, Lost 0 and my grade has gone down 🙂
I'm sandbagging by accident.
Speaking of which, did you notice this.
http://www.chess.co.uk/twic/chessnews/events/moscow-open-2010
Alexei Gubajdullin has been booted out of a Russian tournament for doing just that.[/b]
But OK maybe he should have tried enrolling for the A group instead.
08 Feb 10
Originally posted by robbie carrobieHi Robbie.
please tell the forum pawn dude, chess games are won and lost in the middle game!
I know that!
But this is Ruxton's stuff and these good players use their endgame supremacy
as middle game blackmail to force you into doing rash things to avoid the ending.
Did anybody solve this? Nobody in Bates Motel did.
White to play and win.
The Rook is only allowed to make one move and that is to deliver mate.
(I like this one, the engine using wallahs now find thier favourite toy totally useless).
Post solution as one of those PGN moving things.
08 Feb 10
Originally posted by greenpawn34It has been posted here numerous times. Never understood anything of it, neither did my Deep Decimal Rybka.
(I like this one, the engine using wallahs now find thier favourite toy totally useless).
[fen]6k1/8/8/8/8/8/8/5RK1[/fen]
Post solution as one of those PGN moving things.