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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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178 HOW TO Pl.AY CHESS ENDGAMES

10.06

A.Philidor

1777

Wb8 6 \$'bl++-; 3 .. J!f7 4 '&es+ Wa7 5 '&e3+

+-.

4 \$'d8+ wa7 5 \$'d4+ Wa8 6 \$'h8+ Wa7

6 .. J!b8 7 \$'al#.

7~h7++-

Philidor also laid the most important foundations

of the endgame of rook and bishop against

rook.

The best square for the rook. Alternatives:

2 ... l!e3 3 l!d7+ We8 4 !!a7 Wf8 5 l!f7+ We8 6

!!f4 Wd8 7 .l1l.e4 +-; 2 ... l!el 3 .l1l.f3 and White

wins in similar fashion to the main line; 2 ... Wc8

3 l!a7 l!d8+ 4 Wc6 Wb8 5 l!b7+ Wa8 6 ~bl

Wa7 7 Wc7 +-.

31!h7

White uses zugzwang to force the rook to

leave its 2nd rank.

3 ... l!el 4 l!b7

The rook must occupy b7 or f7 for the opera-

tion to work. This side-to-side oscillation is

typical for this particular ending. Not 4 i.f3?

We8!=.

4 !!cl

4 ©c8 5 l!b4 l!dl 6 l!h4 Wb8 7 l!a4 +-.

5 i.b3

This is the underlying winning idea. You can

see why the white rook must move to b7 and the

black rook be forced onto the back rank. Black

is now in zugzwang and must decisively weaken

his position.

5 ... ~c3

5...Wc8 6 .l:1b4 Wd8 7 l!h4 !lei (7 ... Wc8 8

.l:l.d5 Wb8 9 l!a4 +-) 8 i.a4 Wc8 9 i.c6 ~di+

10 i.dS ! Wb8 I I l!a4 +-.

6 i.e6 ~d3+ 7 .l:l.d5! l!c3 8 l!d7+ Wc8 9

~h7 @b8 10 l!b7+ Wc8 11 l!b4 Wd8 12 i.c4

Wc8 13 i.e6+ Wd8 14 ~b8+ .li!.c8 15 1!xc8#

Exercises

(Solutions on pages 321-2)

10.07

A.Philidor

l'Analyze des Echecs, 1749

1 ll:f8+!

Black was threatening to set up a 'secondrank

defence' with .. J!d7+, so White must first

seize the 7th rank.

1..J!e8 2 l!f7! l!e2

El0.08 **/

Prove that White wins here.

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