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Why You Never Know What to Do in the Middlegame: Imbalanced Bishops
Note that opposite color bishops are drawish in the endgame, but in the middle game favor the side that is attacking.
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Endgame Training: White to Play and Win
Start your endgame studies with the Important King and Pawn Endgames! section on the right hand side.
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How Does White Win this?
Solution below...
White overwhelms Black with the pawns.
This gets trickier if Black tries to defend with his king...
The check with g6+ is necessary to give White the tempo necessary to capture the c5 pawn before Black can play e4.
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Familiar Endgame
I have reached this king and pawn endgame three times, twice online and once in a tournament, so I studied it. I show this endgame in my chess lessons.
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