how to play chess endgames book

THE RIGHT EXCHANGE 103
Karpov shows a profound feeling for strategy
and retains his bishop-pair. The present pawnstructure
means that there will be play on both
wings and so, with the open centre. the bishoppair
will exert strong pressure. The light-squared
bishop will thus have an especially important
role to play. After I ... il.xg2? 2 @xg2 it is not at
all clear who is better. The white king comes to
the centre more quickly than its opposite number
and also the black queenside pawns might
prove weak.
2 il.e4 il.d4 3 lbd3 as 4 @g2 fS!
Black forces the exchange of the e5-pawn,
which is favourable to him since otherwise this
pawn restricts Black's activity. This exchange
brings about an opening of the centre, which on
principle favours the owner of the bishop-pair.
4 ... il.a6 5 f4 il.xd3? 6 il.xd3 il.xb2 would of
course be a clearly erroneous exchange and not
at all what Karpov had in mind. In view of the
opposite-coloured bishops, despite the win of a
pawn the position would be drawn.
5 exf6
5 il.f3 il.a6 6 il.e2 il.xb2! (naturally not
6 ... il.xd3?? 7 il.xd3 il.xbH) 7 lbxb2 il.xe2-+.
5 ... gxf66 g4@f87 b3'i&e7 8 @g3@d6 (D)
9 ... il.d7 10 h3 il.bS 11 f3
11 'i&g3!? il.c3 12 @f4 il.d2+ 13 @g3 il.d7
and White cannot prevent the advance ... f5: 14
lbb2 (14 f4!?) 14 ... @eS 15 lbc4+ @xe4 16
lbxd2+ @d4 +.
11 ... il.d7 12 @g3
12 lbel? il.f2!! 13 lbd3 e5+ !4 lbxe5 fxe5#.
12 ... rs 13 gxf5 exf5 14 il.b7 il.bS 15 lbel
il.c3 16 lbc2 il.d3
Now White loses the a2-pawn and quickly
goes under.
17 lbe3 @c5 18 lbc4 a4 19 @f4 il.xc4 20
bxc4 b3 21 axb3 a3 0-1
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Black first centralizes his king. With the
bishop-pair and an open centre this is generally
not difficult to achieve.
9@f4
Now Black must destroy the ideal white defensive
set-up of d3-knight plus e4-bishop. This
will be achieved by playing .. .f5 at an opportune
moment.
White has not only an extra pawn, but also a
great positional advantage, since the black king
position is considerably weakened. How should
White continue?
1 '&dl!
Excellent. White must absolutely avoid the
exchange of queens, since the simplest way to
exploit the weakened black king position is to
use the queen to attack it. After I '&xe4? l;lxe4 2
le'!.b I Black's hopes of a draw would still be very
much alive. Without the queens, the weakness
of the black king position would no longer be
relevant and rook endings are sometimes very
drawish, With 2 ... a5 ! ? • for example, Black could
try to exchange the queenside pawns, after
which the position would be an easy draw.
1. .. le'!.e82E.{d4