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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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330 How TO PLAY CHESS ENDGAMES

4 ... el WI s h3 'tlYcl 6 @f3!

6 'i&h2? '&fl --+.

6 ... 'tlYfl 7 'i&e3 '&g2 8 @e2 =

Ell.30

J.Hasek

La Strategic, 1928

1 'li'e6 (D)

1 it:lf2 b3 2 it:ld3 f5 3 'i&e6 f4 4 it:lxf4 (4 Wf7?

loses) 4 ... b2 5 it:lxd5 = transposes, as Nunn

points out, and so is a 'cook'.

Ell.32

J.Gunst

Trjdschrift v.d. KNSB, 1950

1 bS+!

i lt::ixa5 d2 2 lt::ic4 di WI 3 it:ld6 Wlcl 4 a3 (D)

and Black first wins the g-pawn and then manages

to break free with his king.

8

1 ... b3

After 1...d4?? 2 it:lh6 d3 3 'li'f7 d2 4 @f8

dl'& 5 it:lf7# Black even loses.

2 it:lxf6! b2

Or:

a) 2 ... gxf6?? 3 Wf7 b2 4 g7+ Wh7 5 g8WI+

@h6 6 '®g6#.

b) 2 ... d4 3 lt::ie4 b2 4 it:ld2 =.

3 it:lxdS bl'& 4 lt::ie7!

Black cannot release his king, so the game is

drawn.

Ell.31

A.Troitsky

Tidskrift for Schack, 1910

1 it:lc6!

I it:ld7? loses to 1...d3 2 it:lf6 .i.b8+! -+

(2... d2? 3 g3+ @g5 4 lt::ie4+ =).

1. .. d3 2 lt::ixa7!!

2 lt::ie5? d2 3 f4 .i.gl +!--+ (3 ... dl '&?? 4 g3#).

2 d23 lt::ib5! dl'tlY 4lt::ic3 'tlYd6+5@hl 'tlYe6

5 @g5?? 6 lt::ie4+ +-.

6it:le4 =

For example, 4 ... 'tlYal 5 g4 'tlYa2+ 6 Wgl ~e2

7 g5 'tlYg4+ 8 Wf2 'tlYxg5 9 We2 'tlYg2+ 10 @di

Wlf2 II @cl Wle212@bl Wldl+ 13@b2~d2+

14@b3 °&d3+ 15 @b2 °&dl 16@c3 '&cl+ 17

Wb3 °&bl+ 18 Wc3 '&a2 --+.

1. .. @xbS 2 lt::ixeS d2 3 a4+ 'it>a6

3 ... Wb4 4 lt::id3+ Wxa4 5 c6 Wb5 6 c7 dl \'fl 7

c8'tlY '&xd3 8 '&xe6 =.

4 c6 di'& 5 tbd7

Black is unable to release his king.

Ell.33

H.Ree - V.Hort

Wijk aa11 Zee 1986

1. .. l;ixh4!

J....i.f2+? 2 @xf2 !txh4 appears equally interesting.

However, in view of the weaknesses at

d6 and g6 Black cannot prevent White from penetrating

his position: 3 We3 !th7 (3 ... !th3+ 4

'li'e2 !th2+ 5 'i&d3 !!h3+ 6@c4 !th4 7 Wb5 !lxf4

8 'li'c6 !th4 9 'it>xd6 ±) 4 Wd3 !tc7 (4 ... We7 5

Wc4 We8 6 Wb5 !tc7 7 Wb6 !tc5 8 Wa6 !tc4 9

W/g7 !tc5 10 '&l,7 ±) 5 Wih8 !tc5 6 Wd4 !tc7 7

Wlf6 !td7 8 'i&c4!tc7+ 9@b41ab7+ 10 @a5 !ld7

(10...!tb611'tlYxf8+'it>xf812 Wxb6 +-) 11 Wb6

!td8 12 Wc7 !td7+ 13 Wc8 +-.

2Wxh4.i.d4

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