Trading Queens a Losing Blunder in the blitz game

Swedish player Gianky59, a weak 1498 player, after playing better than his low USCF rating, offered a Queen exchange on the e3 square which leads to a LOST King and Pawn ending in the following diagrammed position.

After the exchange on that dark square, Black plays Kf5 to be in attacking range of White's over advanced and vulnerable 3-2 Queenside Majority. Black is easily winning because she can make an outside passed h pawn! 

 

Fascinating Conversion to Winning KP ending an Exchange Down!!

ICC player eternalwarrior blundered in below diagram by moving his Rook to c7 rather than c8. His logic was impeccable wanting to protect d7 pawn, but there was a tactical oversight in his reasoning. 

Can you see the flaw in his reasoning based on Black's King location and the harmonizing/coordination of the g5 Knight an the e6 pawn?

After pawn to e7 there are two Knight Forks that lead to a won King and Pawn ending where the White King ends up at the dominating d5 square and Black possessing a weak isolated passed d pawn still stuck on its original d7 square!!! One of the variants actually forces the Black Monarch to block the passed pawn in order to to gobbled up by f6 Knight Fork!!!! SO BEAUTIFUL

It is impossible to go through all the variations as to why White is winning, but some of the ideas are White has two pawn islands to Black's three, White has 3-2 King Side pawn majority, Zugzwang(means German for every move loses),  a more active centralized King, and maybe even triangulation in some variations. 

I would love to know if Doug Hyatt or Russian Speaking White guy GM Bryan Smith would consider this position, after the blunder, to be worthy of study?

Weakened Pawn Structure Versus High Mobility Bishop Duo

Norway or Norwegian blitz player PerMag(An adoring fan,devotee and lover of Carlsen) plays much better than his 1400 rating. In the following diagram, he chose the bishop pair over a maimed King Side pawn structure.

He does have a healthy uncompromised(will stand strong against the feared COVID-19 virus) 3-2 queenside pawn majority that could possibly lead to an endgame advantage. US Grandmaster D. Naroditsky wrote a beautiful piece dealing with tattered pawn structure,Bishop Pair(Magnus Carlsen) versus solid pawn structure with two Horses(Nakamura).

Carlsen, exploiting imperceptible weaknesses, while torturing  the dumbfounded American in an article published in the USCF periodical.

The Stockfish ICC machine, as G. Kasparov calls it in his magnum opus "My great predecessors", evaluates White's compromised structure as a long term advantage for Black, unless the Bishop pair that were once a single piece according to J. Rowson can impose their will!!

BTW, do any of you know who owns the website simplifychess.com? Whoever it is does Caissia an extreme disservice with marketing slogans like LEARN HOW TO ALWAYS WIN AT CHESS

Moreover, the entrepreneur behind the site never discloses his/her name, but wants your name so they can send you "cool software" that will make you never lose a chess game. OMG, are you kidding me? Who is your target audience for a ludicrous thing like this? CHESS PLAYERS ARE SUPER SMART. Do you think anybody will be suckered in by such Bullshit?!! 

The whole notion that chess can be simplified or dumbed down to where average IQ people can always win is a travesty. Take down your site and make a living another way!! Have the guts to reveal yourself to the chess world by disclosing your name like fredthebear did at his gaming site.

Read the efforts of Daisy Grewal regarding the misogyny that exists in the Royal Game. She was brave and principled enough to put her venerable and trusted name on her work in Scientific American.

Won King and Pawn ending out of the opening

jgonz, playing at the Internet Chess Club with the White pieces out of the country of Mexico. elected to exchange pieces every chance he got in this French Defense. He was so eager to swap pieces that he willingly allowed Black a four to three pawn majority on the King side.

It is well known that White can do something similar in the Ruy Lopez exchange variation  securing a 4-3 King side majority at the expense of conceding the Bishop pair. In praxis Aaron Nimzovitch, White rarely wins because of said majority.

In the position you see, White's Knight and Rook, at first glance. appear to be on threatening squares. However, they are unable to combine around the Black Monarch and Black's simple plan becomes to at least trade off Rooks with the fantasy of also exchanging Knights leading to won king and pawn ending.

The winning Black pawn structure owes its soul to the fact that White's 4-3 Queen side majority can never bear the fruit  of a passed pawn since the c pawns are doubled at c2 and c3. Such a Queen side majority is frequently called unhealthy by folks at the Mechanics Chess club in San Francisco and the rock and roll one there frequented by New Mexico chess legend Jess Kraai who authored Lisa, a chess novel which had a refreshingly puerile point of view and was worth reading.

Forcing a trade of Rooks is usually easier that coercing swap of Horses, but many endgame books point out that Knight and Pawn endings share many of the characteristics of pure King and Pawn endings, so getting the Towers off the board is a good start in Black's quest to secure the full point!

Converting Dangerous position to Winning Ending

In the following game, outash of the internet chess club , lost his queen for a Rook and a Bishop in a tactical sequence. Many chess players believe a Queen against a minor piece and a rook is a winning material advantage.

Black just moved his rook to e7 attacking the White Queen at e5. Black has two rooks and two bishops versus a rook, queen, and knight for White. Significant is White's 3 to 2 king majority if mass trading occurs.



Would you move your queen if your were White in this position? If not, what move would you play to exploit your pawn majority on the king side?