how to play chess endgames book

192 How TO PI.AY CHESS ENDGAMES
2 @f2 @f5 3 @f3 .i.xg2+ ! changes essentially
nothing.
2 ... @f"S 3 @f2 @e4 4 .i.xf6
4 @e2 a3 5@d2 d4 6 .i.al f5 -+.
4 ... d4 5 i.e7 @d3! 6 .i.c5 @c4 7 s.a @b3
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This famous finale could well serve as an
endgame study.
Blc) The Well-Entrenched Knight
Of course, knights can also build a fortress.
11.21
V.Topalov -A.Shirov
Linares 1998
Shirov's next move highlights in a most impressive
way the relative worth of the black
bishop:
1 ... i.h3!!
Initiative above everything else! This is the
only way to breach the defence based on the
principle of one diagonal (al-h8) and is consequently
the only winning possibility. 1.. . .i.e4?
is less effective: 2 g3 f5 3 @f2 @d6 4 @e3 @c5
5 .i.f6 @c4 ( D).
11.22
K.Bischoff - J.Gustafsson
German Ch (Altenkirchen} 2005
Bischoff has ensured that his knight always
has enough squares. So Black could even capture
the f2-pawn and still the fortifications
could not be stormed.
1 4Jf4 @g5 2 4Jh3+ @g4 3 lt:if4 ~f3 ( D)
White holds the draw, since everything is
taking place on the al-h8 diagonal and White
cannot be placed in zugzwang: 6 .i.e5 ~b3 7
@d2 and the white king must bar the way to his
opposite number: 7 ... @a2 8 @c I ! @b3 9 @d2
2gxh3