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Everyone I have asked agree that endgames are important. Yet, very few will practice with me. Those that do practice only select endgames that I post. I fear that they will lose interest. If they also posted endgames that they are interested in or just cut and paste the fen I provide and played the other side I think they would remain interested longer. What can I do.
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I could have posted this message exactly, myself! Indeed, a couple of monthas ago I nearly did. I've been looking around the Internet for 'endgame tournaments' without success.
What can you do? Start a movement yourself. The way things would normally go is that if you put in a lot of work you'll get a few people along for the ride and thank you muchly but you won't get anything much out of it yourself.
I can think of ways of organising such tournaments where you can get just as much out of them as anyone else but some careful, creative thought is needed.
Steve
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Steve,
Wow, I dont even know how to structure an endgame tournamnet. Since you start at an endgame how do you score. Suppose you start at philidors position. if it is a draw the side without the pawn had the more difficult task in holding the draw. but they both score a half point. If you start at Lucena's position you cant penalize the side that loses.
In the meantime you might select the endgames I have posted in open games, or challange me with an end game you want to practice. You can also challange me with an fen in the title of any game I have posted with colors reversed
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Ahah! I'm guessing that it is possible to specify a start position in something called an 'open game' right? This I didn't know.
So, I gather you've been posting some endgame positions which you like to play out; some have been accepted but you'd like more - and ideally for others to initiate a few positions. The idea being to beef up your endgame ability in a more interesting (and more effective!) wasy than reading BCE. Have I read this right? Please corect me and fill in any more if I'm wrong.
Steve
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My idea of an ideal endgame tournament:-
Six (or so) players join an all-play-all and each is given a position which would be considered an endgame against each of the other players. 1-game each, 5 games in total. After that, the tournament runs just like any other.
I have a real liking for tournamets (as opposed to pick-up games) hence my thoughts here.
The problem with this type of tournament is that it doesn't exist and I know no way of organising one which isn't clunky or home-brewed enough to dissuade most people from taking part.
It wouldn't be all that much work for an interested and enthusiastic player to organise such an event (even a regular one) if the programming were there - which to my knowledge it isn't - anywhere!
Any thoughts on that?
Steve
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You understand my motivations completely.
I will participate in your tournament if you organize it, but I am not the guy to organize such a tournament. I posted an explanation of fen notation did you read that.
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