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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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312 How TO PLAY CHESS ENDGAMES

E7.02

Deep Blue - G.Kasparov

Philadelphia ( 3) 1996

11:tcbl! b6 2 i.b8! l:ta4 3 ~b4 l:ta5

3 ... l:ta6!? is more accurate, and keeps a minimal

advantage; for example, 4 c4 (4 l:tc4 0-0 5

i.d6?! b5! with the initiative) 4 ... @e7 5 i.e5

l!d8 6 f3 ~e8.

4 l:tc4 0-0 5 i.d6 l:ta8 6 l:tc6

Now the activity of White's pieces compensates

for his worse structure.

6 .•• b5 7 @fl l:ta4 8 l:tbl a6 9 @e2 hS 10

@d3 l:td8 11 i.e7 l:td7 12 .bf6 gxf6 13 l!b3

@g7 14 @e3 es 15 g3 exd4+ 16 cxd4 l:te7+

J 6 ... l:tdxd4 17 l:txa6! =.

17@f3 l:td7 18 l:td3 lhxd419 l:txd4 l:txd4

20 l:txa6 1/2-112

E7.03

A.Suetin - M.Botvinnik

USSR Ch (Moscow) 1952

Black would really like to exchange a pair of

rooks:

1 ... i.h6! 2 fxe6 fxe6 3 l:txf6 l:tcf8 4 l:txf8

i.xf8!

The bishop-pair offers more than enough

compensation for the lost pawn.

5 l!f2 .i.h6 6 i.c4 i.e3 7 ~e2 i.gl 8 g3

Suetin reduces the winning potential, but his

position was already very difficult, as the following

variation shows: 8 h3 .i.e8 9 ~dl .i.h5

10 l:td2 i.h2 11 c3 i.f4 12 ~f2 i.g3 13 l:td2

i.el 14 l:tc2 i.xdl 15 ~cl i.h5 16 !txel !txg2

+.

8 .•• hxg3 9 hxg3 l!xg3 + 10 a3 i.e8 11 @82

i.h5 12 !tel i.d4 13 l!hl !tg5 14@b3 i.e5 15

i.d3 i.g6 16 !th4 l:tg317 a4 i.f6 181:thl l!g4

191:tel i.e5 20 ~dl !tf4 21 ~c3 !tf3 22 ~bl

i.g3 23 !tgl he4 24 ~d2 i.d5+ 25 @a3 l!f2

26 lbe4 i.h2 27 !tg6 i.xe4 28 i.xe4 d5 29

i.d3 i.e5 30 !tg8 @d7 31 b4 i.f6 32 !tgl !th2

33 @b3 @d6 34 !tdl @e7 35 c4 l!b2+ 36 'iPa3

dxc4 37 i.xc4 !tc2 38 i.b3 i.b2+ 39 @a2 !tf2

40 i.c4 a5 41 bxa5 i.c3+ 42 ~b3 i.xa5 43

i.b5 b6 44 @c4 @f6 45 ~d4 l:tf4+ 46 @e3

~es 47 !thl J;{e4+ 48 @d3 !tg4 49 l:th5+ @d6

50 !th8 @e5 51 l:th5+ @f4 52 !th3 l!g8 53

l:th4+ @es 54 !th5+ @d6 55 ~h4 ~g3+ 56

@e4 i.d2 57 i.d3? (D)

Now there followed an instructive attack to

conclude.

However, we shall not provide the game continuation

at this point, since this is exercise

E 13. IO - please try to find the win yourself.

E7.04

R. Kasimdzhanov - M .Adams

Tripoli FIDE Welz (4) 2004

lf4! {D)

B

1. •• i.xf4

l...~xf4+ 2 i.xf4 i.xf4 3 !txg7 b4 4 l;!dd7

l;!a2+ 5 @f3 i.h2 6 e5 +-.

2l!g6~f7

2 ... .i.xe3 3 l:txe6+ @f7 4 ~xc6 i.f4 5 l:tf3 g5

6l:txc7+ +-.

3 l;!xe6 @xe6 4 i.xf4 J;la4 5 @f3 ~c4 6 .i.e3

b47 l;!d4l;!xd4

7 ... l;!xc5 8 l;!xb4 l:tc2 9 h4 +-.

8 i.xd4 g5 9 @e3 1-0

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