The hiding place
In a rook ending the attacking king often has problems to find shelter from the
rook checks. Creating an umbrella is one technique, often the attacking rook can
help and sometimes hiding places are available:
The long march
If in the opposite colored bishop endgame the two passed pawns are seperated by
three files then the attacker usually wins:
The breakthrough
At first sight the following pawn ending looks dead drawn. But looks can be deceptive:
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