how to play chess endgames book

102 How TO PLAY CHESS ENDGAMES
E4.38 /**
Black is clearly better, but at the moment
White threatens both Jlxa5 and l2:ld3.
Demonstrate good technique!
K) What is Important is
What is Left on the
Board, Not What
Disappears
From this it follows that the only important
thing is to assess the position that arises. It is
irrelevant whether your own piece was more
powerful than the enemy piece.
prizes. The vital question is how can White
make progress.
I l2:lxd7+!!
After this exchange, the way is open for all
White's pieces, whereas Black can do little
more than defend passively. 1 g4? Ab5 2 g5
l2:lh5 gives Black unnecessary counterplay.
I ... l:!.xd7 2 l;I.cl ± l;I.d6 3 llc7 l2:ld7 4 l;I.e2 g6
5 'it>f2 hS 6 f4 h4 7 'it>f3 fS?
7 ... d4 was more tenacious.
8@e3d4+
8 ... 'it>e7 9 l;I.ec2 +-.
9 'it>d2 l2:lb6 IO l;I.ee7 l2:ld5 11 ~f7+ ©eS 12
l;I.b7 l2:lxb4
12 ... l;I.bS 13 ~a7 l;I.a8 14 l;I.x.a8+ @xf7 15
Jlc4 +-.
13 Jlc4 I-O
L) Avoiding an
Unfavourable Exchange
Obviously, when two pieces are placed such
that they can be exchanged, you should not necessarily
exchange them. Yet in games between
weaker players we see such captures being
made time after time, almost without thinking.
How important it can sometimes be to resist
this temptation is illustrated in the following
examples.
B
4.28
R.Fischer - T.Petrosian
811e11os Aires Ct (7) 1971
At first sight the white knight on c5 dominates
the scene. But in chess there are no beauty
4.29
I. .. Jlc8!
G.Sosonko - A.Karpov
Waddinxveen 1979