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June, 2003: After dozens - if not hundreds, LOL - of complaints about the color scheme, I decided to change it.
( I am starting with Rook-and-Pawn End-games first.)
{ Later I plan on adding some pretty composed end-game studies. }
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I began creating this project - on the Internet - in November, 2001.
The book I use ... and teach all my students the endgame from?
"Winning Chess Endings," by GM Yasser Seirawan.
(All students of the end-game should get this book!!!)
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A good question I get all the time is, "How do I improve?" This is a fair question and seems to be on the minds of nearly every young chess-player. (And not just young ones, either.) Well, the first thing you need to do is to make a commitment to get better. If you wanted to be the world's best tennis player, you should take lessons, read books on tennis, watch tennis on television, and hit a tennis ball nearly every waking hour. If you wanted to be the best golfer, you would follow a similar program. If you wanted to be the world's best card player, you should study, play with cards all the time, read books on cards; ... by now you should be getting the idea. The same thing applies to getting better at chess. (See my Geo-Cities web-page(s) for more details, ESPECIALLY my "Chess Training Page.") !!! |
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So, if you really want to get better at chess - you have to study. No big secret there ... it doesn't exactly take a rocket-scientist to figure that out! But the real $64 question is: "What do I study?" This is the key! So if you stink at Rook-and-Pawn endings, then you need to study them, right? RIGHT!! I have a philosophy about Rook and Pawn End-games. (And all end-games in general.)
You only really need to work really hard and study basically THREE
things: So study, study, study. And here you should have ALL the fundamentals to making you a better end-game player!!! (And please remember this is a work in progress, as I finish one section, I will move on to another. I eventually plan on having as many endings here as I have the storage room to hold. So hang on to your hats and check back often.) I also believe in, "The Building-Block Method." What I mean by this is that if you TRULY want to Master chess, you should FIRST master simple positions ... before tackling more complex ones! And make sure you visit my chess web page(s) in Geo-Cities. And especially my web page on my "Chess Training Program." This page has LOTS of good info ... how to make a commitment to improve, how to set up an effective chess training program, what to study and what NOT to study, how to build your first initial chess library with only 5-10 books, and dozens and dozens of valuable chess training tips and ideas. Please check it out!! Thanks! Please come back! And tell your friends! Important MessageFeb. 16th, 2003: After several straight computer crashes, I am finally back on line. (Apparently Windows '98 died on me. I had to upgrade to Windows XP.) Many of you sent me material, questions, endgames, etc. Thanks to the computer crashes, much of this information is ... GONE!! If you would like to re-send it, I would greatly appreciate it. Otherwise, I will not be able to retrieve this information. ************************************************************************************************** (Interregnum) About 6-8 months ago, one hard drive failed. (I lost a lot of info then as well.) ************************************************************************************************** Jun.
05th, 2004: I had another fairly bad crash/computer failure.
(About 2 weeks ago.) THE DETAILS? Here goes: A brand-new ANTEC case; 550-watt, Antec power supply, (ATX, 12V); new motherboard; new INTEL 3.4 GHz processor, (No more AMD processors for me, thank you very much!); Six (6) 256-MB RAM sticks; new 120-GB Hard Drive; new SVGA video card, with 132 MB of RAM on the card itself; new DVD Player; etc. Basically everything is new ... the only thing(s) I kept out of the old box was two (2) Hard Drives, one (1) Floppy Drive, and the modem. (The modem was relatively new, a U.S. Robotics V.92, 56K Fax-Modem PCI for Windows, {USR-5699B}; that I purchased just last year when Windows '98 failed on me.) I also got a kicking Logitech sound system, many speakers plus a giant sub-woofer. So now I have a pretty decent system ... after years of suffering with the old one and just making due. (I am also running Windows XP as well.) What does this mean to you? Well, for one thing - it shows I am dedicated enough to purchase a viable system, in order to be able to bring you the very best pages. It is also a "Good News / Bad News" story. The good news is a I have a new system, the bad news is (AGAIN!) ... a lot of data was lost, some of the files on the old hard drive were partially corrupted. Fortunately, all my critical chess databases and many of my other key files were backed up on CD-ROM's or on (1.44 MB) Floppy Disks. BUT ... enough key information was lost to set me back about six months to a year. One more ... I ask for your indulgence and patience. All those kind people who sent me hundreds of files last year after my last big crash ... please re-send any material that you would like to see here. Otherwise, I will not be able to recreate it. (THANKS!!) |
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Click here
to go to the list of articles that I plan on doing for
"CV-Chess."
(Some very basic endings will be covered as well.)
---> SIMPLE MATES: "King-plus-Queen vs. a lone King" click here. "King-plus-Rook vs. a lone King" click here.
My endgame list here on Angel-Fire/games4/lifemasteraj.
(See my Geo-Cities
web-page
on "Basic Endgame Lessons & Challenges" ...
until I get more endings posted to this page. There are several examples
basic K+P endings
there! When I finish with the R+P section, this will be the next section I
begin to work on.)
There are also several nice K+P endgames on this page as well.
A.J.'s "King-and-Pawn" Endgame School, Position # 1.
A VERY complicated King and Pawn ending, but one that is sure to
teach you ...
or at least introduce you ... to the complexities of this type of
ending.
(Ever hear of: "THE THEORY CORRESPONDING SQUARES?")
A.J.'s "King-and-Pawn" Endgame School, Position #
2.
A useful bit of chess knowledge ... unique to K+P
endings.
A.J.'s "King-and-Pawn" Endgame School, Position
(game) # 3.
In the game, Sasikiran - Nisipeanu; (from the 2006 Spanish
Team Championships);
the players reach a very interesting K+P endgame. Despite what
several GM's wrote
(and said) about this game ... (shortly after
it was played); it appears that once Black
reaches the ending with only Kings and Pawns on the board ... that he
is unable to save
this contest. The K+P endgame is analyzed in great detail, so go
ahead and check it out.
A.J.'s "King-and-Pawn" Endgame School, Position # 4.
A.J.'s "King-and-Pawn" Endgame School, Position # 5.
A.J.'s "King-and-Pawn" Endgame School, Position # 6.
(The list below will - obviously - take some time to complete. Hopefully the
first few examples
will whet your appetite. Jan. 05, 2002: ALL the basic
R+P endings are now in place!!!)
You have to be able to play the basic endgame of :
King-and-1-Pawn vs. a King-and-a-lone-Rook.
For a detailed explanation of how these endgames work, click HERE!
King-and-2-Pawns vs. a King-and-a-lone-Rook.
A study by GM Pal Benko.
[Did you know he was easily in the "Top Ten" players in the World
... at one time?
He did play in the Candidates Tournament/cycle of 1958-1959.]
(A deceptively easy-looking position, that contains great artistry ...
and great instruction too!)
You can now DOWNLOAD
a small database of four examples of this type of ending.
(KING-and-ROOK vs. KING-and-(1) PAWN.)
I walk you through, step-by-step, the basic procedures of this ending. Each
example changes
only slightly. Many of my students have found this an extremely good way to
learn.
(This is a zipped and
compressed file! You also MUST have a ChessBase
product to read this file!
Click HERE
to go to ChessBase's web-site and download CB Lite for free!)
{If you would like to contact
me, you could obtain my COMPLETE database for 1 Pawn
and
King, vs. King and 1 Rook. It has nearly 25 examples in it, many
are DEEPLY ANNOTATED!!,
with MUCH verbiage and explanations too! A tremendous learning
tool.}
November 16th, 2003:
A very good explanation of these endings, (King + Rook, versus: King +
One-Pawn);
can be found in the book, "Basic
Chess Endings." This book was
originally written by Dr. Reuben Fine, and
and then was updated by GM Pal Benko. (Revision
©, 2003.) [ See Chapter VI, page # 275. ]
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The Lucena Position (A)
(The
most basic of all Rook-and-Pawn end-games!) (Position
# 1.)
The Lucena Position (B)
(The
most basic of all Rook-and-Pawn end-games!) (Position
# 2.)
The Lucena Position (C)
(The
most basic of all Rook-and-Pawn end-games!) (Position
# 3.)
The Philidor Position
(The
most basic DRAWING
POSITION of all Rook-and-Pawn
end-games!)
(Even STRONG players often do NOT know this technique!
SAVE
valuable half
points in tournaments!!
The
'Saavedra Position'
(Another
NEED-TO-KNOW
Rook-and-Pawn end-game!)
The
Vancura Position
( A basic ending you really need to know to master R+P
endings.
Really two endings in one! )
(More endgame knowledge to help expand and magnify what you learned
above is:)
"A.J.'s Rook-and-Pawn School," position #
1.
A study designed to teach you about Rook-and-Pawn end-games; Position
#1.
(How to draw with a RP on the 7th Rank - with the Rook in
front of the
Pawn.)
"A.J.'s Rook-and-Pawn School," position #
2.
A study designed to teach you about Rook-and-Pawn end-games; Position
#2.
(More lessons on, "The Philidor Drawing
Position," culled from
actual Master play.
I also explore the relationship between the Philidor
Position and the Lucena Position -
IN GREAT DEPTH!! Maybe more than you have ever seen
before.)
"A.J.'s Rook-and-Pawn School," position #
3.
A study designed to teach you about Rook-and-Pawn end-games; Position
#3.
(How to win with a King, Rook, plus Two-connected-Passed-Pawns
vs. a King and Rook.
Based on the famous ending from the game, Zukertort -
Steinitz. {1883.}
This
ending is NOT as easy as you might think!!)
"A.J.'s Rook-and-Pawn School," position #
4.
A study designed to teach you about Rook-and-Pawn end-games; Position
#4.
(The actual ending from the game, J.R. Capablanca -
S.G.
Tartakower; New York, 1924.
Maybe the GREATEST Rook-and-Pawn end-game ever
played!!!!)
"A.J.'s Rook-and-Pawn School," position #
5. (5a.)
A study designed to teach you about Rook-and-Pawn end-games; Position
#5a.
(Another great MODEL R+P Endgame.
From the actual game, V.
Smyslov - S. Reshevsky;
World Championship Tournament; Moscow/The Hague, 1948.
Another
one of the greatest R+P endings ever played!!)
( The above 2 endings are SO GOOD, you should study them over, and over, and over again!!! )
"A.J.'s Rook-and-Pawn School,"
position (game) # 5 (5b.)
A study designed to teach you about Rook-and-Pawn end-games; Position
#5b.
It's here!
The entire game,
A.J.
Goldsby I - Mike Thornton;
from a local
(Pensacola) tournament. This is another game which is very
instructional. It bears a VERY
strong resemblance to the above game. (Smyslov -
Reshevsky) A DEEP computer analysis
indicates the ending was extremely well played by both sides. It is VERY instructional and
deeply annotated. I also believe a close study of this
ending would be VERY educational!
(This one page has generated more e-mail than all the rest put
together.)
( Dec. 2001: The rest of these endings will be
[mostly] culled from actual Master Play.
I have dozens of examples in my databases, many I have seen
rather recently. )
"A.J.'s Rook-and-Pawn School," position
(game) #
6.
A study designed to teach you about Rook-and-Pawn end-games; Position
#6.
A complete annotated game - featuring a very nice
Rook-and-Pawn endgame.
(GM Mike Adams - FM G. Sarthou; from the Dec. 2001; FIDE
KO W.C.S. in Moscow.)
"A.J.'s Rook-and-Pawn School," position
(game) #
7.
A game/study/endgame designed to teach you more about Rook-and-Pawn end-games;
Position #7.
(The
complete game, Bobby Fischer - L. Portisch;
Stockholm
Interzonal, 1962.
Perhaps one of the ten greatest R+P endings ever
played!!! And many errors of analysis
that have been perpetrated on this game have been corrected.)
"A.J.'s Rook-and-Pawn School," position #
8.
A game/study/endgame designed to teach you more about Rook-and-Pawn end-games;
Position
#8.
A great, (COMPLETE); annotated game ... that clearly illustrates the
dangers of a passive Rook.
"A.J.'s Rook-and-Pawn School," position #
9.
A study designed to teach you about Rook-and-Pawn end-games; Position
#9.
(A composed problem that will help you understand further one of
our basic positions.)
> Based on a GM game, where a GM missed this drawing
idea!! <
"A.J.'s Rook-and-Pawn School," position #
10.
A study designed to teach you about Rook-and-Pawn end-games; Position
#10.
An actual endgame. White starts with an position that most
computers rate as slightly
better for White ... and winds up losing!! An
example you should study over and over again!
From the REAL game H. Mattison - Akiba Rubinstein;
Karlsbad, 1929.
"A.J.'s Rook-and-Pawn School," position #
11.
A postal game with a fantastic R+P end-game. If you study this game VERY
carefully,
(REPEATEDLY!) it will teach you (more) about Rook-and-Pawn end-games;
Position
#11.
This is from the actual correspondence game, Yakov Estrin -
Hans Berliner; The Fifth
Correspondence World Championship Tournament, 1965-68.
"A.J.'s Rook-and-Pawn School," position #
12.
A study/endgame designed to teach you (more) about Rook-and-Pawn end-games;
Position/Game
#12.
See the game after
the 56th move. I give the correct move ... and a VERY detailed explanation
of how
this particular position should be played. I PACKED THIS SECTION with
good advice and helpful hints!
A.J.'s
Rook-and-Pawn School, position # 13.
A COMPLETE GAME designed to teach you (more) about Rook-and-Pawn end-games;
Position #13.
(From the 2006 U.S. Championships ... a model R+P endgame by GM
Alexander Onischuk.)
( I have changed the numbering of some of these positions.
{As
the way they were originally numbered
on my computer.} For example, I have over 70 examples in just
one of my
Rook-and-Pawn databases,
and I have like 7 db's devoted to nothing but R+P endings! What I have decided
to do is only bring you
the positions that I believe are FUNDAMENTAL to R+P end-game
knowledge! I also combined some.
The one that touches on both
the Philidor and the Lucena is actually
about
8 different studies
that are all rolled into one. {MY R+P School, Position # 2.} )
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---> I HAVE HAD LITERALLY DOZENS OF REQUESTS FOR THE ITEM BELOW!!!
As
most of my students know, I have three large databases dedicated to R+P endings.
(One is for beginners, one
is for intermediate students, and one is for advanced.) Now you can DOWNLOAD
my complete database for
advanced students. Most of these are complete games!! (The database is
UN-annotated. Many of the games were
annotated in the original ChessBase files, and I did not wish to violate anyone's
copyright. The database is a ...
"star-dot-CBV" file, and it has also been zipped as well. Study
these endgames as exercises ... and get better!!)
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ONE
PARTING THOUGHT:
I have many books on R+P endings. But about 25 years ago, there was a
little book printed ...
only about 60-70 pages long. It was called "Practical Rook
Endings," by GM Edmar Mednis.
It is worth its weight in gold - and would be a great book to study all the way through ... if you can still find a copy.
(June, 2002: I have slowly begun the job of
building files inside "ChessBase" for different endings. I already
have earmarked at least a dozen interesting games that I may
include in the Knight and Pawn section of the
endgame course. But be warned! I worked on the R+P
section for nearly two years before I felt I had
enough material to begin building web pages.)
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"A.J.'s
Bishop-and-Pawn School," position # 1.
I was not really sure what to do with this one.
It could have been classified as a K+P
ending, a Q+P and-game, etc. I thought it was close enough to
Bishop-and-Pawn to
go here. It is slick, and VERY, very, very tricky. Care to
have a go at it?
"A.J.'s Bishop-and-Pawn School,"
position #
2.
(A FULL-length game!)
A.J. Goldsby I - Adam Cavaney, 1999.
This is one of my own games. I have taught
this ending MANY times on the Internet.
Every time I have taught this ending, my
students have usually suggested that I place
this game on my end-game web page. After
hearing it - more than once - I finally
agreed and decided to place it here.
--- Truly a
monumental end-game.
"A.J.'s Bishop-and-Pawn School,"
Game #
3. (Not a position.)
A full length game ...
Fischer vs. Taimanov, from
their Candidates Match in 1971.
Maybe THE FINEST example of a "Bishop
vs. Knight" ending ever played!!!!
There is BOTH a text-score page .... that features a FULL-Length
annotated game ...
the text-score page has about five diagrams! AND
... there is a java-script re-play page!!
YOU
MUST CHECK THIS GAME OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!
"A.J.'s Bishop-and-Pawn School," position #
4.
An interesting endgame ... that came about after a normal
Bishop-and-Pawn ending.
"A.J.'s Bishop-and-Pawn School," position # 5. (Blank, for now.)
"A.J.'s Bishop-and-Pawn School," position # 6. (Blank, for now.)
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A.J.'s Knight Endgame School, Study
/ position # 01
Here is one of the most exceptional Knight
endings that I have ever seen!
I have tried to explain the basic ideas, you MUST check this game
out!!!
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A.J's Q+P Endgame School, study/game
# 01
Here is a game that took a lot of time to analyze. Its a real
demonstration of the correct method
of handling the winning side in this very difficult end-game. (A
complete, annotated game!)
A.J's Q+P Endgame School, study/game # 02
The endgame of "King, Queen, plus QNP vs.
King and Queen is often thought to be a draw.
Dozens of the books that I have reach conclusions about this
endgame that are INCORRECT!!!
(This includes Benko's revision of R. Fine's classic work,
"Basic Chess Endings." Benko and Fine
conclude that this ending is generally
drawn.)
However, computers are changing everything! The K+P endgame
... that the above ending could have
arisen from is also analyzed in some detail. Some really good
analysis ... so please, check it out!
A.J's Q+P Endgame School, study/game # 03
A.J's Q+P Endgame School, study/game # 04
[ There is at least one basic Q+P endgame analyzed on my big Geo-Cities web site. ]
An article on the whole field of Q+K vs. K+R endings. (Over-view.)
Ending
Q+K vs. K+R;
"The
Philidor Position."
(A
special ending designed to help you learn the winning technique AND
how to
co-ordinate the piece action of just 4 pieces in the
endgame.)
Ending, Q+K vs. K+R; "The Goldsby
Position."
A look at the discovery of K+Q vs. K+R, and the discovery
that I made in this ending.
Ending, Q+K vs. K+R; "The
RAM"
A look at the discovery of K+Q vs. K+R,
a position I consider fundamental to this ending.
Ending,
Q+K vs. K+R .......... IM
M. Dvoretsky looks at this endgame
A look
at this endgame - by the world's greatest and most respected chess trainer.
( Don't get excited if a link does not work, it simply means I have not completed that page yet!! )
NOTE:
A good piece of advice for these re-play boards, especially if you encounter ANY
problems.
# 1.) "Re-load" or "refresh"
the page!! (Often. 2-3 times, or more.)
# 2.) Press the "End" button underneath the js-board. Then play
BACKWARDS through the game, one move at a time!
Then you can press the "Forward" button and play
through the game as normal!
Good advice!! (Sometimes
just pressing the "start," then the "end" then the
"start" button works too.)
Of course, you should visit my GEO-CITIES web-site (web page) on ...
"Basic
Endgames Lessons & Challenges."
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And you should also visit my GEO-CITIES web-site (web page) on ...
"The
LUCENA Position."
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I also have a page on my Geo-Cities
web-site,
completely devoted to
"Chess
Problems,"
and, "Composed End-game
Studies."
Click HERE
to go there now!!
Click here
to return to my home-page, here.
(Angel-Fire/games4/lifemasteraj.)
Click here to return to my Geo-Cities web-site. (Home-Page)
( Or ... use the back button on your web-browser. See the list on my home page for more links. )
I had the idea of creating a "Endgame School" on the
Internet, many years ago. But then my skills were not up to the task. I began preparing my endgame files for this
task shortly after I created my first web-site in the early to mid-nineties. I began seriously overhauling these
files again in the spring of 2001. I 'dropped the ball' for a while, only to resume work again in the fall
of 2001. After many months (years) of work, I
actually began creating web pages in Nov./Dec. of 2001.
This section will NEVER be finished ... every time I see or play an instructive ending, I will be temped to
add another page! I hope you enjoy all the results and the fruits of all my hard work. Please visit my
other web pages also! Thanks!!! (01/04/02)
I now have all the basic endings posted ... that form the foundation of my R+P end-game school. (01/18/02)
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