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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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250 HOW TO PU..Y CHESS ENDGAMES

13 ... @xe814~el+@f815g4h616a3f517

h3 fxg4 18 fxg4 ±.

14Wxc31k8+ 15@b3@e716f!.d2@d617

@b4

17 lbb7+!?@c7 18 lbc5 a5 19 lbe4 (Huschenbeth)

was even stronger. 17 c4? ! bxc4+ 18

lbxc4+ @c5, however, would give Black unnecessary

counterplay.

17 •.. l;rb818 c3 fS 19 a3 f6 20 l;rd4 hS 21 g3

i!e8 (D)

29 c4!

Good technique! White first exchanges his

weak c3-pawn and only then begins decisive

action against the black weaknesses.

29 .•• bxc4 30 @xc4 @e6 31 @b4 l;rb8+ 32

Wa4 l;rd8 33 @a5 l;rd2 34 a4 f4 35 gxf4! l;rd6

36 l;rxhS l;rd4 37 l;rcS J;rxf4 38 l;rc3 l;rh4 39

l;rb3@d7 40 f!.b4 nxh2 41 @xa61k2 42@b6

l;rc6+ 43 @bS l;re6 44 !ile4 l;rd6 45 l;rc4 l;rdS+

46 @b4 f!.d3 47 f4 l;rdl 48 as l;rbl+ 49 @a4

!ital+ 50 WbS l;tbl+ 51 l;rb4 J;rfl 52@b6 @c8

53 'i&c6 net 54@d6 i-e

The final transformation: White will win

with his f-pawn, so Anand resigned.

B) Practical Examples

Bl) Space Advantage

Every cramped position harbours within it the

germ of defeat.

SIEG BERT T ARRASCH

White has now finalized all his preparations

and is ready for the next transformation, to be

able to penetrate Black's position.

22lbc61 ~cs

22 ... i!xc6 23 dxc6+ @xc6 24 l;rf4 +-.

23 lbaS

Leko repeats moves, in order to show who is

boss.

23 •• Ab8 24 lbc6 l;rc8 25 @a5! i!xc6 26

dxc6+ @xc6 27 l;rh4 Wd6 28 @b4 l;rh8 ( D)

To have more space is not an advantage in itself.

It can even happen that advanced pawns leave

weak squares behind them, which the opponent

can exploit. In the endgame, however, the probability

that the possession of more space is an advantage

is high, since there are no longer so

many forces available for a counter-attack.

15.07

V.Anand - A.Shirov

Leon adv 2000

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