The Pre-Endgame – NM Dana Mackenzie

October 22, 2014 NHaselton Chess Lectures

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Learn From Your Fellow Amateurs 3 – NM Dana Mackenzie, from the ChessLecture series.

This lecture is a look at a Scotch late middlegame to pre-endgame transition. Beginners and intermediate players will see the power of a ‘Passed Pawn Bind’ in an imbalanced material situation. The struggle to maintain the Bind is the focus of the video, and at one point White maintains the Bind but is a rook down and striving to win. The Bind is always looking to transform to a favorable queening of a Passed Pawn situation and we see Black struggling to defend this constant idea.

Charlie Storey says, “The Bind is a positional asset everyone should be mindful of,” and Dana does a great job of explaining this.

Interface used ICC: http://www.chessclub.com/from/WStewart/

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