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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340 How TO PLAY CHESS ENDGAMES
16 c71:1b7 17 'i.t>c61:1xc7+ 18 ~c7 f3 19 'i.t>b6
1-0
E15.02
N.Short - M.Gurevich
Shenyang (FIDE Wcup) 2000
Short gave up his strong central pawn-pair in
order to get to grips with the black king:
1 d6! cxd6 2 c61:1c8 3 c71:1c5 41:1xc5 dxcS 5
.i.c41:1xc7
5 ... 'i.t>f8 61:1xf7+ 'i.t>e8 7 1:1h7 1:1xc7 8 1:1xh6
+-.
61:1xf7 'i.t>h8 7 'i.t>c21:1d7 8 'i.t>b3 as 9 f31:1d4
101:1xe7 a4+ 11 ~a4 !txc412 'i.t>bS 1:1c213 b3
'i.t>g8 141:1e5 1;!.xa2 15 1:1xc5 nas 16 ~b4 ms
17 ID'S 1:1b8+ 18'i.t>c31:1c8+ 19'i.t>b21:1b8 20 f4
1-0
E15.03
V.lvanchuk - I.Cheparinov
KhantyMansiisk (FIDE WCup) 2005
With I ... 1:1c7? Cheparinov missed the chance
to activate his rooks, and the game was drawn
after 2 'i.t>g5 'i.t>f7 3 h5 gxh5+ 4 'i.t>f5 1:1e8 5 lla2
1:1b761:1g2'i.t>f871:1h21:1bl 81:1xh51:1fl+9'i.t>g6
1:1gl+ IO.i.g5'i.t>g8 ll 'i.t>f51:1fl+ 12'i.t>g41:1gl+
lfi.lfi.
Shipov (at Chesspro.ru) pointed out the correct
move:
1. •• gS!! (DJ
2h5
Or: 2rl.al gxh431:1hl I!.g441:1xh41;!.dg7-+;
2 hxg5? 'i.t>f5 and White gets mated.
2 ... g4 3 1:1xc6+ 'i.t>rs 4 e6 lab7 5 e7 g3 6 .th4
Two alternatives require analysis:
a) 6 e8'l\lY 1:1xe8 7 .i.e5 1:1g8 8 l:tf6+ 'i.t>e4 9 c6
g2101:1f4+ 'i.t>e3 l 1lag41:1xg4 12 cxb7 1:1g8 13
.i.h21:1e8 14'i.t>g51:1b8 15 .i.xb8 gl\W+ 16 g;>f6
'l\lYbl 17 .i.e5 'l\1Yxb7 -+.
b) 6 'i.t>h7 lle8 7 .i.g7 1:1exe7 8 1:1f6+ 'i.t>g4 9
h6 g2 10 1:1g6+ 'i.t>h3 11 1:1g5 labl 12 1:1xg2
@xg2 13 'i.t>g6 1:1hl 14 h7 lle8 15 c6 1:1c8 16
h8'l\lY 1:1hxh8 17 .i.xh8 1;!.xh8 18 'i.t>f6 'i.t>f3 19
'i.t>e5 1:1h5+ 20 g;>d6 'i.t>e4 -+ .
6 ... g2 7 1:1f6+ 'i.t>g4 8 nrs 1:1b8 9 1:1xb81hb8
1 O .tr2 1:1e8 11 'i.t>g6 1:1xe7 12 h6 1:1e6+ 13 'i.t>g7
'i.t>r3 14 .tgl 1:1el 15 h7 1:1xgl 16 h8'& 1:1hl 17
~f8+ 'i.t>e3 18 'l\1Ye7 + 'i.t>d3 -+
El5.04
S.Gligoric - P.Trifunovic
Budapest 1948
White must open a way for his king:
1 d4!
I g4? .i.h7 2 gxf5 h5 plays into Black's
hands.
1. ..'i.t>d6 2 dxcS+ ~cs 3 a4! 'i.t>d6
3 ... a5 4 lt::ic4 +-.
4 b4 a6 s @d4 hS 6 lt::ic4+ 'i.t>e6 7@c5 .te8 8
a5 .ta4 9 lt::ie3 .tbs 10 lt::ic2 @e7 U lod4 .td7
12 bS axbS 13 a6 .tc8 14 a7 .i.b7 15 lt::ixbS
'i.t>d716 lt::id4 .te417 lt::ixf5 1-0
El5.05
A.Matanovic -V.Korchnoi
Hamburg Echt 1965
1 ... 1:1c3!l 2 lt::ixc3
2 .i.xe4 1:1xh3 3 .i.xf5 1:1xa3 4 .i.xe6 'i.t>xe6 5
lt::ixd4+ g;>f6-+.
2 ... dxc331:1dl
3 1:1f2 .i.xd3 4 cxd3 1:1c8 5 zn c2 6 !Ic 1
lt::ixf4 7 1:1e3 1:1c3 8 'i.t>fl lt::ie6 -+.
3 ... lt::ixf4 4 1:1h7 .txd3 5 1:1c7 lt::ie6 6 1:1c6
.i.e4 7 1:1xe6+ 'i.t>xe681:1xd8 'i.t>eS!
The point of the combination! The black c-
pawn remains on the board and the white one
disappears. You solved the exercise only if you
calculated this far.
9@f2
91:1dl .i.xc2 IOlkl 'i.t>d41I 1:1xc2'i.t>d3-+.
9 ... .txc2 10 g3 gS 11 'i.t>e2 f4 12 gxf4+ gxf4
13 1:1e8+ @d4 14 1:1d8+ 'i.t>c4 15 1:1d6 'i.t>b3 16
1:1xa6 'i.t>b2 17 1:1b6 .i.dl+ 0-1
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