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In this companion volume to Fundamental Chess Endings, Müller and Pajeken focus on the practical side of playing endgames. They cover all aspects of strategic endgames, with particular emphasis on thinking methods, and ways to create difficulties for opponents over the board. Using hundreds of outstanding examples from modern practice, the authors explain not only how to conduct 'classical' endgame tasks, such as exploiting an extra pawn or more active pieces, but also how to handle the extremely unbalanced endings that often arise from the dynamic openings favoured nowadays. All varieties of endgames are covered, and there are more than 200 exercises for the reader, together with full solutions.

In this companion volume to Fundamental Chess Endings, Müller and Pajeken focus on the practical side of playing endgames. They cover all aspects of strategic endgames, with particular emphasis on thinking methods, and ways to create difficulties for opponents over the board.

Using hundreds of outstanding examples from modern practice, the authors explain not only how to conduct 'classical' endgame tasks, such as exploiting an extra pawn or more active pieces, but also how to handle the extremely unbalanced endings that often arise from the dynamic openings favoured nowadays. All varieties of endgames are covered, and there are more than 200 exercises for the reader, together with full solutions.

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WEAKNESSES 131

To conclude, here is another especially impressive

example:

6.23

J.Hajtun - L.Szabo

Hungarian Ch (Budapest) 1955

Rozentalis opens a second front on the queenside

and, slowly but surely, penetrates in that

sector:

1 ~a3!! ~xa3?! 2 bxa3 !td8 3 !tb2 !tc7 4

!tbS !tdd7 S@f2 g6 6 @e3@g77 !tt'bl @f78

l!!cS @e79 .l'.!bbS !txcS?

Playing into White's hands. 9 ...@d8 was indicated.

10 dxcS!

Making the d4-square available to his king.

10 ... @dS ll a6

Now Black's ramparts are finally hreached.

11 ...@cS

11...bxa612lla5 d4+ 13 cxd4c314c6c215

!tc5 +-.

12 !tb6!! .i.g8

12 ... axb6 13 a7 +-.

13 m6 l!!d814@d4 bxa6 15 l!!d6 1-0

F) The Exploitability of a

Weakness

A weakness that cannot be exploited is not a

weakness.

In the following diagram, White even benefits

in a certain sense from his doubled and isolated

pawns, since Black can only make progress by

exchanging pawns.

1 !tb7 11a5 2 l!!c7 @g7 3 !tb7 !tdS 4 !tc7

@f8 S nb7 @e8 6 l!!a7 l!!d7 7 !ta8+ <;;e7 8

!tal @f6 9 !taS !tdS 10 !ta7 es 11 fxeS+

!txeS 12 !ta6+ @fS 13 !ta3 !tdS 14 !ta4 gS

15 hxgS <;;>xgS 16 !tb4 !td3 17 l!!bS+ rs 18

l!!b41/z-1/z

Sometimes apparently weak doubled pawns

can even prove to be very powerful if the blockade

cannot be maintained.

B

6.24

V.lvanchuk -V.Anand

Linares (I) 1992

l ••• hS!

This undermines the white structure and so

weakens the blockading forces.

211gl hxg4 3 fxg4

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