My idea to study Bernd Rosen's "Chess Endgame Training" while traveling has pretty much been a bust. Air travel on the cheap is pretty stressful. First I had to get to the airport early in order to get through the security checks. Once inside I had to find a seat where I could watch for the boarding. On the airplane we were wedged in like sardines. There was no clear sense of armrest territory, and physical contact with strangers, shoulder to shoulder and leg to leg, was not restful. The air quality on airplanes seems diminished somehow. Perhaps it is just all us big animals breathing in a small space. I couldn't stay awake, and I couldn't really sleep.
So after four flights and one night on an airport bench my progress was page 22! That's as far as I got. At least this time some of the examples were less daunting than the last time I worked with Rosen's book. I think I have made progress.
From my perspective the problem with endgame study, once one is past the fundamentals, is that they do not come up often. In club play the endgame material imbalance or positional lock is so extreme that the finer points of endgame technique are not necessary.
Still I am enjoying Rosen more than ever, and appreciate his method. I want to be a solid endgame technician.
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