In his excellent
Mastering Endgame Strategy Grandmaster Johan Hellsten teaches - amongst many other things - how pieces dominate each other when placed at a particular distance.
This is an incredibly practical skill to dominate in endgame play.
With the board mostly empty, they can operate to their fullest. So, understanding how to arrange your pieces will help you restrict the opponent’s activity and - as you’ll see -, underline other elements of the position which can prove decisive.
In this
Free Lesson, extracted from the chapter ‘The Magic Distance’, you will learn the magic number for each pair of pieces and how to spot these patterns from afar to increase your winning chances in any endgame.
You’ll see, there are many ways in which piece domination can decide the outcome of a game. For example:
✊ Winning material
✊ Creating zugzwang
✊ Winning or losing a valuable tempo
✊ Clearing the way for a passed pawn
✊ Distracting the rest of the opponent’s army
✊ Forcing a transposition to a simpler endgame
✊ Building a mating attack
The best part is that this is not a concept exclusive to endgames. As one example in this free lesson will show, you can apply it in the middlegame and even the opening. So, learning by heart and sensing the relationship between pieces can help step up your overall strategic feeling.
That’s another reason to delve into the 38-minute video and drill the eleven exercises in this free lesson.
So dominate your opponent’s pieces and dominate the fate of the game!
Master the Magic Distance Today!
PS: If you like what you see here, be sure to check out the full version
Mastering Endgame Strategy which contains over 600 MoveTrainer exercises and over 30 hours of game-changing endgame instruction.
