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Topic: Corresponding Squares
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It's one that was taught to me by my father during K-P endings but it did not have that name before. It is a very important principle to remember during K-P end games.
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WhyBish,
Very good point. What I am trying to do is to bring my entire game along at the same time. Learn a little each day about the opening, middle game and ending. Play each move to the best of my ability. Try to understand what my opponent is up to. Try not to blunder, oh OK right on that. Try to keep the end game in mind. If I perceive an endgame advantage I try to trade pieces and head to the end game. Edward Lasker who right now is my guru says, "we note in contemporary master play a tendency to simplify the middle-game by exchanging pieces, as soon as there is an infinitesimal advantage in the pawn position."
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Yes, the problem is that maybe 1% of people on this site are in that category?
I suppose I take the process engineering point of view. Find out where your greatest impacts will be and work on those.
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Unless you get >2500 realworld ELO points, don't even think about learning this game from that end.
As far a I understand this corresponding squares and all the numbers are the result a very deep position understanding and can't be calculated without this understanding. So the mechanism is good for illustrating complicated positions to readers, but not that they can help one out in understanding the position first. And this positions are really rare to find, mostly basic knowledge (opposition rules) are sufficient.
In endgames it is important to KNOW what kind of material advantage is needed to win, especially what positions are not to win, even the with material unbalancies. But most important is to learn the strategic principles of endgames, i.e. centralize the king, active rooks can easily compensate a pawn down, when are bishops better than knights and vice versa, etc., etc. etc. Try to find a book that is focused on teaching principles and techniques, but not trying to enumerate evidence on evidence that readers are trying to memorize.
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In its simplest form opposition is an example of corressponding squares. It will be difficult to improve beyond 1900 without understanding opposition. Hence you must understand the simplest case of corresponding squares. I doubt it is possible to become a FIDE master without understanding the vast majority of the pawn endings in Dvoretsky's book
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