Square Of The Pawn

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Greetings,

Do you feel like your endgame studies will never get used?

Well, don’t fret. Eventually, it will pay off. I finally got to use the square of the pawn principle in a rated game against Anthony Telinbacco and talk about it in this week’s newsletter.

In addition, Tim Brennan posted an interview he does with me on his new website. You can read about it and find the links in the newsletter too.

Peace be with you,

Paul Anderson

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  1. This Week In Chess
  2. Square Of The Pawn
  3. Tactics Time
  4. Game Viewer: ( cschess.webs.com/2011games.htm )

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I play quite often on FICS, and use the square of the pawn rule on a fairly regular basis.

What I find to be a more rare occasion, is triangulating the king to win an endgame.

Of course, 99pct of my games are g/10… which is a fairly fast time compared to slower tournament games.

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couldn’t figure out one time in a skittles game why this “square of the pawn” hadn’t worked for me. Of course it was because my opponent had pushed his pawn from c4 to c6 in one move!

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Playing a lot of quick games would get you more endgames, but I would still think it is a small percentage of those games.

The thing I liked about my game was that I knew I could move away from the pawn before going after it to get the win.

Of course, triangulation is much rarer.

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This is the game, actually just played quite recently:

[Event “unrated blitz match”]
[Site “Free Internet Chess Server”]
[Date “2011.05.25”]
[Round “?”]
[White “GuestNGDN”]
[Black “jjamesge”]
[Result “*”]
[WhiteElo “-”]
[BlackElo “1224”]
[ECO “B21”]
[TimeControl “600”]

  1. e4 c5 2. d4 cxd4 3. c3 dxc3 4. Nxc3 g6 5. Nf3 Bg7 6. Bc4 e6 7. O-O Nc6 8.
    Qe2 a6 9. Rd1 Qc7 10. g3 Nge7 11. Bf4 Qb6 12. Bd6 O-O 13. Rab1 Qd8 14. g4 b5
  2. Bb3 Re8 16. e5 Bb7 17. Ne4 Na5 18. Nc5 Bxf3 19. Qxf3 Nxb3 20. Nxb3 Nc6
  3. Re1 Qg5 22. Qg3 Rac8 23. f4 Qd8 24. Rbc1 a5 25. Qe3 a4 26. Nd4 Nxd4 27.
    Rxc8 Qxc8 28. Qxd4 Qc6 29. Qe4 Bf8 30. Bxf8 Kxf8 31. Qxc6 dxc6 32. Rd1 Ke7
  4. a3 Rd8 34. Rxd8 Kxd8 35. Kf2 Ke7 36. Ke3 c5 37. Kd3 Kd7 38. g5 Kc6 39.
    Ke4 Kc7 40. Kd3 Kb6 41. Kc3 Kc6 42. Kd3 Kd5 43. h3 b4 44. axb4 cxb4 *

Specifically, moves 39, 40, and 41 is the point where I triangulated my king.
Pretty nice game, considering the time control. Opponent resigned at the end. Not sure if the .pgn file properly shows that. -It may be that the opponent left the game (in which I was defaulted the win by the server.)

Edit: That’s weird, the date shows May 25th… and I know I played it several days ago. Must be on account of my cutting and pasting the game on May 25th.