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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 203

El 1.22 /**

Black appears to be in great difficulties

due the strong threat of lld8+.

Can you find a way out?

El 1.24 /**

Can you find a winning plan for Black?

El 1.25 ***/

Hard to believe, but this fortress can also be

breached. Can you find a way to win?

Ell.23 ***/

Naturally the pawn-barrier theme has also

aroused the interest of study composers.

Can you see how White can erect

an impregnable fortress here?

In the preceding examples it was always a

question of erecting an impenetrable pawnbarrier.

In the following examples, however, it

is rather a question of how to breach a possible

pawn-barrier or how to prevent one from being

set up in the first place.

El 1.26 /*****

Can you find a plan to breach

the white fortress?

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