Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-73.10.163.124-20150401013118/@comment-26018514-20150514220036

I suppose I'm not being clear, by "late game" I mean the point where both players basically have a few pawns and 2-3 pieces other than the king, at that point a bishop pair, a bishop/rook pair, or a bishop/queen pair can both prevent the opposition from promoting pieces and threaten anything trying to prevent your own pawns from promoting, the bishops mostly preventing the opposing pieces from covering each other while the others are offense and the final line of defense, the bishops also make great sacrifice pieces at that point.