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Event: Croatian Championship 2019. Site: Bjelovar CRO Date: 2019.11.04 Round: 11 Result: 1-0 White: Ivan Saric WhiteElo: 2691 Black: Blazimir Kovacevic BlackElo: 2475 ← Previous VideoNext Video →
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Event: Croatian Championship 2019. Site: Bjelovar CRO Date: 2019.11.04 Round: 11 Result: 1-0 White: Ivan Saric WhiteElo: 2691 Black: Blazimir Kovacevic BlackElo: 2475 ← Previous VideoNext Video →
Continue ReadingHere is another position that is well-known today. Lolli showed the winning technique in 1763.
Continue ReadingVery interesting opposite colour bishop endgame. At the end this game ended with the same position as the longest game in history of the World Championship matches. Event: TCh-AUT 2018-19 Site: Austria AUT Date: 2018.11.15 White: Martinovic, Sasa WhiteElo: 2563 Black: Videki, Sandor BlackElo: 2400 Result: 1/2-1/2
Continue ReadingSecond video in The Strength of the Bishop Pair in the Endgames video series. GM Ivan Saric analyzes his game against Rapport. Event: Kozloduy Danube Countries 2nd Date: 2013.11.01 Round: 5 Result: 1-0 White: Ivan Šarić Elo White: 2628 Black: Richard Rapport Elo Black: 2680 ECO: C18 ← Previous VideoNext Video →
Continue ReadingWhite to move. Take the pawn or keep the king away from our kingside? White: Fedorov, V. Black: Arkhipov, S. Year: 1980 Result: 1/2-1/2
Continue ReadingIt can be extremely difficult to win an opposite-colored bishops endgame, even with 2 extra pawns. Here is one aesthetic example from the past. Black to move. Event: URS-ch sf Lvov Year: 1973 White: Makarichev, Sergey Black: Averbakh, Yuri Result: 0-1
Continue ReadingWhite dominates in this simple endgame position. Next plan is to pick up black’s last remaining pawn. But Black is to move. White: Kožul, Zdenko WhiteElo: 2590 Black: Žaja, Ivan BlackElo: 2440 Year: 1997 Result: 1/2-1/2
Continue ReadingHere is one well known, older ending from a high class game where White missed a nice winning motif. Do you think you would find it? Event: Dos Hermanas White: Svidler, Peter WhiteElo: 2713 Black: Anand, Viswanathan BlackElo: 2781 Result: 1/2-1/2
Continue ReadingAt first glance I thought this is easily winning endgame. White has many ideas: Black king is not safe, White always has mating motifs. Probably the main idea is to sacrifice rook on f7 and White wins if after Rf7, Nf7 Kf7 he can play Kd5! with the winning pawn ending. Also black rook […]
Continue ReadingLet us now examine positions with the black king imprisoned in the corner g7. Pay attention to the word imprisoned since the threat a7 with the winning backblow of the rook, the black king must not leave the safety area restricted to squares f7-f6-h6-h7. At first sight one can conclude that Black is helpless […]
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