Chess.com: Materialism and Initiative in the Endgame

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Channel: Chess.com · 2009 · Education

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Typically, the absence of queens would increase the importance of material compared to initiative, but in this lesson, FM Galofre shows us that there is plenty of scope for using the initiative in such positions. In so doing he goes over a very instructive game, with creative minor piece and rook attacking play.

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