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how to play chess endgames book

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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FORTRESSES 187

After · . this premature . . move , Whit es ' pawnmajority

on the kingside is devalued. Instead

Yusupov should have increased hi

vantage with I g4!.

s space ad-

1. ... bgS! 2 fxgS .i.e6 3 Ad3 itJcS 4 Ml

Now Malaniuk forced the draw·

4 .•• a6!? 5 bxa6 itJxa6 •1i-•1i ·

1 @d7 @a8 2 Ac6 @b8

A~ so on. But not 2 ... bxc6?? 3 @c7 c5 4

b 7+ Y::ra7 5 b8Wt'+ @a6 6 Wib6#.

Exercise

(Solution on page 323)

11.10

Fortress V

. Also with a dark-squared bishop the black

king cannot be dislodged from the safe comer

Even an extra pawn on c7 would b f b .

fit to White.

e o no ene-

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T~e _f~llowing example demonstrates how

crucial it is to recognize at the right moment the

emergence of a possible fortress:

11.09

Fortress IV

11.11

C.Landenbergue-1.Hakki

Hamar 1983

Once again the black king cannot be di -

lodged from his hideout.

is

The game continued:

1 d7?

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