how to play chess endgames book

CONVERTING
AN ADVANTAGE
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White liquidates the queenside completely,
in order to penetrate decisively on the kingside:
1 a6!@a7
l...b6 is no help either; for example, 2 Axd6
Axd6 3 !'!xb6+ @c7 4 !1b7+ @d8 5 flxg7 Ae7
6 a7 ~d7 7 g5 hxg5 8 hxg5 @d6 9 g6 1:la8 10
flh71:lxa7 11g71:la8 12 ~8 +-.
2 axb7 ~b8 3 Ad2 flxb7?!
Now White has a technical win. 3 ... Ab6, to
keep the rooks on the board, was more tenacious
but of course still very unpleasant for Black.
4 !'!xb7+ 'i&xb7 5 g5 hxg5 6 hxg5 .id8 7
@f3@c8 8@g4@d7 9@h5@e810 .ib4 ( D)
B
follows, because of their great practical importance,
we shall confine ourselves to discussing
the conversion of an extra pawn and the advantage
of the exchange.
B2a) An Extra Pawn
The following scenario is absolutely typical for
the endgame in general, even though the rule of
thumb applies above all to rook endings: for the
conversion of an extra pawn in a rook ending
with pawns on both wings, Fine gives the following
formula in Basic Chess Endings:
If the defending king is on the wing with an
equal number of pawns:
l) Place the rook and the king on the best
possible squares.
2) Advance the pawns on the other wing as
far as convenient.
3) Create an outside passed pawn.
If the defending king is on the side with the
extra pawn, then you can often win by penetrating
the other wing and plundering the pawns
there.
10 ••• fxgS
IO ... $.e7 11 gxf6 gxf6 12@g6 @f8 13 .iel
+-.
11 Axd6 Af6 12 Ab4 @f7 13 .id2 Ae7 14
Axg5 .ia315 Ad8 Ad616@g5 1-0
Ribli resigned in view of 16 ... @e& 17 f6
gxf6+ 18 Axf6 @f7 19 @f5 +-.
w
82) Material Advantage
Normally two healthy extra pawns are sufficient
to win, all other things being equal. However,
pure bishop endings and rook endings
have a strong drawing tendency, so that the attacker
should be very cautious about allowing
exchanges. In Chapter 4 ('The Right Exchange')
we have already seen that the general rule of
thumb is: the attacker exchanges pieces and the
defender pawns. We have discussed in the previous
section the transformation of one advantage
into another by returning material. In what
15.13
J.Nunn - Fritz 5 {training game)
Secrets of Practical Chess, 1998
Before activating his king, White first seizes
space on the kingside:
1 h4 b5 2 g4 a5 3 @g3 a4 4 a3 !'!dl 5 h5
It is often good to create such pawn-chains,
since then the rook only needs to protect the
base pawn.