National Master Dan Heisman is a name that is synonymous with excellence in chess coaching and teaching. Dan authors the award-winning Novice Nook column (winner of three Chess Journalists of America "Best Instruction" awards), aimed at improving adults, for chesscafe.com that are clearly written and offer very practical advice and tips on how to improve your game . In the new Improve Your Chess series, Dan provides instruction by reviewing amateur games played on ICC and showing where the players went wrong and how to improve.

Today's show: In some endgames, there is a choice of promoting a pawn and forcing the opponent to sacrifice material for it, or trying to get a queen by preventing him from sacrificing. I show a couple examples of the latter and one of the former. Also, at the start I show an addition to the cases where you have a K and pawn and something else vs a king and are not winning (from the earlier video K&P&? vs K).

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