Simplification, Exchanges, and Converting Advantages into a Win

July 13, 2021 NHaselton Chess Lectures

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In this video lesson, the RCA guest coach CM Juan Cruz Arias will teach you how to win a won game through simplification. There’s a famous quote by the former world chess champion Emanuel Lasker: “The hardest game to win is a won game”. That is, it is difficult to convert an advantage into a win.

That is exactly what CM Juan Cruz Arias will teach you in this video – how to convert your small advantage into a win through simplification.

🤔 What is simplification? 👇

Whenever you have an advantage, the best way to convert it into a win is by eliminating everything else on the board – which is simplification.

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00:00 Introduction
00:19 How to convert advantage into a win
00:56 What is simplification?
02:16 Small advantage
03:54 How to simplify and convert advantage
14:05 Summary of critical moments
19:32 Best way to trade pieces

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