José Raul Capablanca liked to say that mastery of endgames, and especially its study, often proved more useful than an encyclopedic knowledge of opening theory.
The advice of the great Cuban became a school since chess teachers from the time of the former USSR applied his conception to the letter.
The success of Karpov, among others, the ideal homo sovieticus, was based above all on diabolical precision in so-called simple positions.
Before presenting a little further on some essential cases that we regularly encounter (King and pawn against king, rook and pawn and pawn against king), it is useful to recall the general principles of the final phase of the battle.
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The need for tactical precision
: in the final, to put it bluntly, the slightest mistake can no longer be made up for.
Even the smallest details matter, like knowing who has the trait, for example.
The grand finalists were all meticulous calculators.
In this area we think of Lasker, Karpov…
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