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When two rook fight against a queen it is often extremely important whether the rooks can coordinate or not:
Pure opposite colored bishop ending have a large drawish tendency, but matters are completely different if both sides have an additional rook. Here the guideline from the middlegame, that opposite colored bishops favor the attacker, gains in importance. Usually blitz games should not be analysed, but I found the following final so typical, that I just had to annotate it:
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