Showing posts with label Endgame. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Endgame. Show all posts

How to win endgames like Magnus Carlsen?

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With this happy note, let’s get straight to the topic. Have you ever found yourself in an endgame where it was so boring that you could not find any good moves, while your opponent just seems to know what to do? Today we’ll be discussing how Magnus Carlsen plays in such quiet endgames and most importantly, manages to win the game easily.
Before that, I’d like to ‘warn’ you that it is very important to study such endgames. If you don’t give much importance in this area, you’ll keep struggling to find good moves. Let’s take a look at an ending from Magnus’s game.

Magnus Carlsen is playing Black in this game. Please, take a moment and try to evaluate this position. Who do you think it is better and why? It’s Black to play – can you find a good continuation for Black?
Well, it looks like a quiet position from a boring endgame, isn’t it? It’s not the case for Carlsen – yes, he won this game. I’d like to insist that it’s not a very rare occurrence for Magnus to win such positions. As you may have seen, he has been doing that time after time. He calmly outmaneuvers his opponents for a very long time.
How does he do that? How can you do the same? You can watch the video snippet, where you can see how Carlsen found the winning plan in the above endgame. ðŸ™‚
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How to use an open file in chess Part-2

A few days ago, we published the first part of the lesson “How to use an open file in chess?” by IM Boroljub Zlatanovic. If you missed it, you can watch it now here.

Today, we have published the second part of the video lesson. This time, Boroljub will explain the advantage of having an open file and how to use it effectively with an illustrative example – a game played between Evgeny Sveshnikov and Yuri Balashov.

There might be some instances where you will have to choose between two files to open it. Indeed, having the right open file is important, too.
chess rookAdditionally, this game also shows the importance of the organization of your pieces during an attack and the Rook Shift (transferring rook from one file to another).

Therefore, it can be said that this lesson has a mixture of topics you can learn from. :) You can watch the video lesson below:

Now let’s have a little summary of the lesson:

Key points

  • How to dominate that open file?
  • Organization of your pieces during an attack
  • Kingside attack
  • Bishop pair advantage
  • Good knight vs bad bishop
  • Rook Shift – transferring rook to an active open file
  • Converting your positional advantage into material advantage

Author information
IM Boroljub ZlatanovicIM Boroljub Zlatanovic

Boroljub Zlatanovic is a Serbian International Master and professional chess trainer. He became a FIDE Master, and in 1995 was Youth Champion of Serbia and a member of the national youth team. He was a two-time champion of the University of Belgrade and won 10 Serbian Open Chess Tournaments.

P.S. Did you enjoy these two lessons of IM Boroljub Zlatanovic on “Open Files”? Did you learn something new? Please, write your thoughts in the comments below. :)

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The power of the bishop pair in chess Part-2

In the previous article, we published the first part of the lesson “The power of the bishop pair in chess”. In that lesson, you would have learnt about how to realise the advantage of the bishop pair, transfer your material advantage into a positional advantage and lots more. If you missed it, you can find it here.
Bishop Pair
Today, IM Boroljub Zlatanovic has prepared the second part of the video lesson for you. This time, it’s with a remarkable game played by Vsevdod Rauzer in the Soviet Union in 1936.

We already know that the bishop pair is a very powerful weapon. In this second part, you will understand the ‘real power’ of the bishop pair – two bishops in the centre of the board, controlling a large number of squares and building the foundation for a huge advantage.

You can watch the video lesson below:



Let’s summarise what you would have learnt from this lesson:

Key points

  • How to obtain a bishop pair (forcing your opponent to exchange his bishop(s))
  • How to avoid the exchange of your bishop for your opponent’s knight?
  • How to use your bishop pair effectively to paralyse your opponent’s pieces?
  • The power of centralized bishops
  • How to block your opponent’s pieces?
  • A pawn storm combined with a bishop pair advantage
  • and lots more

Author information
IM Boroljub ZlatanovicIM Boroljub Zlatanovic

Boroljub Zlatanovic is a Serbian International Master and professional chess trainer. He became a FIDE Master, and in 1995 was Youth Champion of Serbia and a member of the national youth team. He was a two-time champion of the University of Belgrade and won 10 Serbian Open Chess Tournaments.

P.S. Did you enjoy these lessons from IM Boroljub Zlatanovic? What are your impressions of them? Please write in the comments below and let us know what you think.

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Finding the right plan: knight v bishop

There might be some points during a chess game when you are stuck in a position and cannot think of the right plan to continue. To help you out, our guest coach IM Boroljub Zlatanovic has prepared a video lesson for you.
IM Boroljub ZlatanovicIn this lesson, Boroljub will show you a game played by Mikhail Botvinnik against Alexander Konstantinopolsky.

In this game, Botvinnik finds the RIGHT PLAN at a particular position where he had to find and play the right moves in order to win the game. Additionally, you will witness a battle between a good knight and a bad bishop.
Knight vs BishopYou can watch the video lesson below:

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