how to play chess endgames book

196 How TO PLAY CHESS ENDGAMES
14 ... lbe7 15 !'lg7 lbxg6+ 16 @e6 @h5 17
@f5 lbh4+ 18@f6 lbf'3 lfl.lfl
Exercises
(Solutions on pages 325-6)
Ell.16 **/
How did White storm the city walls?
11.27
Original
l ••• h5!
Setting up the correct pawn-formation and
preventing the h7-pawn from becoming a weakness.
Now White has to exchange more pawns
if he wants to advance on the kingside, which of
course suits the defender. This theme crops up
in many endgarnes. After 1 ... il.d4? White stops
... h5 by 2 g4!:
a) 2 ... h6 3 h4 il.c3 and then:
al) After 4 g5? hxg5 5 hxg5 il.d4 6 !:tf7 il.c3
7 !'lf6 Black simply ignores the rook: 7 ... @g7! =
(7... il.xf6? 8 @xf6 +-).
a2) 4 h5 gxh5 5 gxh5 il.d2 6 @f6 il.g5+ 7
@g6@f8(D).
Ell.17 **/
Should White roll up in a ball or
become active?
B2b) Typical Drawing Fortresses
with Bishop against Rook
The following two fortresses with two pawns
against two on one wing are worth knowing.
The set-up of the defending pawns depends on
whether the bishop controls the corner square.
Now White wins through repeated use of
zugzwang, domination and the possibility of
simplifying to a won pawn ending, as Enevoldsen
showed: 8 !'lf7+ @e8 (8 ... @g8 9 Itf2 il.e3