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This week’s endgame video is the second in the series on opposite colored bishop endgames, which is the second most common type of endgame, just after rook endgames. The reason for that is that people tend to enter them when they are trying to save a worse position, thinking that all opposite colored bishop endgames are draws. They are not!
In part one we went over simple positions in which the attacker has only one extra pawn or doubled pawns, or when the pawns are connected. In part two we went over pawns which are one or two files apart, the latter being theoretically most complex and common. Here are some general rules:
Winning chances are greater if the pawns are wider apart.
When they are only one file apart the position is a draw if the defender’s king and bishop can
set up a blockade.
When the pawns are two files apart, winning chances are hugest when the pawns are on bishop files because the
king has a lot of room to maneuver.
Pawns on knight and rook files are easier to draw (rook files
being mostly an easy draw).
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