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Very Nice! I love the title of this blog! Please keep posting! :-)
how do you squeeze water from a stone?
@The_Knight_Man_03 said in #4:
> how do you squeeze water from a stone?
It's an idiom for a task that is difficult to accomplish. In this case winning an apparently dead drawn position.
"Study your endgames."
This is the moral of the story. It's not just slightly better positions that are ground out in your examples, but rather slightly better endgames. Sure, it makes perfect sense to test your opponent in whether they have a feel for the pieces, the position, or simply have theoretical positions memorized. I myself won two over-the-board R+B vs R endings (no pawns), which imo is a classic example of grinding it out. Does opp know the defensive strat? Maybe not... let's see :3
@icytease #6'da şunları söyledi: > "Son oyunlarınızı çalışın." > Hikayenin ahlakı budur. Örneklerinizde temel alan sadece biraz daha iyi pozisyonlar değil, biraz daha iyi son oyunlar. Elbette, rakibinizi taşlar, pozisyon veya sadece teorik pozisyonları ezberleyip ezberlemedikleri konusunda test etmek çok mantıklıdır. Ben kendim iki over-the-the-r-tahtad R+B vs R sonu (piyon yok) kazandım, ki bu imo bunu öğütmenin klasik bir örneğidir. Opp savunma stratını biliyor mu? Belki değil... bakalım :3
Yes
@VoicelessFeather said in #5:
> > how do you squeeze water from a stone?
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> It's an idiom for a task that is difficult to accomplish. In this case winning an apparently dead drawn position.
oh sorry