This endgame is by far the most difficult to perform. But it should be of great value to any player aspiring to reach the 2000+ mark.

of course, this is in one of those rare situations where the king is already stuck in the corner, which actually makes it fairly easy

nice mate

Not sure how much value it is (I've never gotten it in a game).  On the other hand, Lilienthal got it at least 3 times in tournaments, as Botvinnik points out in his book on the 1941 Soviet Championship--and was unable to win any of them! (so I guess he should've put in a little extra study).

And now a demnostration of how two knights and king vs king is drawn(keep in mind white is trying to avoid stalemate).

No progress.

The main value of stufying this type of endgame is learning how to co-ordinate your pieces in harmony so that you can achieve the disired result in this case checkmate. Personally if i was to fall into an endgame like this i would just call the game drawn and not even bother trying to mate my opponent.

So would I (unless maybe it was for money).

This may show the value of rooks over bishops.

Ilovegambits wrote:

The main value of stufying this type of endgame is learning how to co-ordinate your pieces in harmony so that you can achieve the disired result in this case checkmate. Personally if i was to fall into an endgame like this i would just call the game drawn and not even bother trying to mate my opponent.

Why?