April 21, 2017
Matthew Sadler
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While rummaging through some old score sheets, I came across a couple of interesting rook endings which I thought were worth sharing. They were both played for Solingen in the Bundesliga just after I retired from professional chess and started a full-time job in Amsterdam. In both cases, I was on the grinding side of…
April 7, 2017
Matthew Sadler
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In this article, I look back to an ending I played in the 4NCL in November 2015. It was a weekend of endgames for me as the queens came off the next day as soon as move 14! I reached the position in the diagram after 31 rather dour moves. I felt my position…
February 9, 2017
Matthew Sadler
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In this final article in this series on the rook and bishop versus rook ending, I would like to examine both some typical mistakes and some unexpected saving resources from over 600 master games. Cochrane’s Defence. The hidden pitfall. Cochrane’s Defence is the most reliable way to defend this ending when starting from…
February 3, 2017
Matthew Sadler
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In a previous article, I examined the winning technique from the Philidor position in detail. In the next couple of articles, I want to spend some time on the best way to defend the rook and bishop against rook ending. To help me, I put together a database of decisive rook and bishop against…
January 27, 2017
Matthew Sadler
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Part of my routine daily work as a chess professional was to run through a set of about 100 endings and make sure they were committed to memory. These encompassed typical endings in various material configurations, and of course R&B vs R was one of them. I don’t have time to do that sort of…