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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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SOLUTIONS TO THE EXERCISES 341

Chapter 16

ElG.01

D.Hausrath - E.van den Doel

Dutch ct« playoff ( Enschede] 2004

1 tbdS?

Now the outflanking manoeuvre of the black

king is successful. The counter-attack by 1 tbg6

would have saved White: 1...tbc6 2 f3 gxf3

(2 ... @dl 3 fxg4 fxg4 4 @e4 @e2 5 @dS =) 3

@xf3 @d3 (3 ... e4+ 4 'i!i>f4 @d3 5 @xf5 e3 6

tbf4+ =) 4 tbxeS+ tbxe5+ 5 @f4 =.

1 .•• @dl 2 0.e7

2 tbf6 @el 3 tbhS (3 tbd7 tbc2+ 4 @d3

tbb4+ 5 @c4 @xf2 6 tbxeS @xg3 7 @xb4 f4 8

@c3 f3 9 tbc4 f2 IO tbd2 @g2 -+) 3 ... tbe2 4

tbf6 la:3 5 @d3 tbe4 6 tbd5 @xf2-+.

2 ... @el 3 tbg6

3 tbd5 tbc2+ 4 @d3 @xf2 5 @xc2 @xg3 6

Wd2@f2 7 tbc3 g3 8 tbdl+@f3-+.

3 ... tbc2+ 4 @d3 tbb4+ 5 @c4 tbc6 ( D)

6@d5

6 tbh4 @xf2 7 tbxf5 e4 8 @dS e3 -+.

6 ... @xf2 7 @xc6

7 @e6 @xg3 8 @xf5 @h3 -+.

7 ... e48@d5

8 tbeS e3 9 tbd3+ @xg3 IO @dS e2 11 @d4

f4 12@c3 el'&+ 13 tbxel f3 14tbc2 f2 15 tbe3

@f3 16 @d3 g3 17 @d2 g2-+.

8 ... e39@d4

9 tbf4 e2 10 tbd3+ @e3 11 tbei (11 @c4

@d2-+) l l...@d212 tbg2 el\\\Y 13 tbxel Wxel

14 @e5 @£2 -+.

9 ... e2 10 tbf4 el'& 11 tbd3+ Wfl 12 tbxel

@xel 13 @e3 Wf1 0-1

ElG.02

P.Leko - V.Korchnoi

Wijk aan Zee 2000

1. ..@f8?

For better or worse, Black must activate the

bishop: 1...i.d4! 2 :i:l.xb7 :!:!.al 3 a4 i.c3 4 :i:l.e7

i.b4 5 :i:l.eS @f7 6 c5 @£6 7 :i:l.e4 a5 8 c6 @fS 9

:i:l.e2 .ktcl 10 c7 :i:l.xc7 ;\; (Korchnoi in CBM).

2a4

2 @e2!? nal 3 a4 :i:l.a2+ 4 @d3 :i:l.xf2 5 cS

i.d8 6 :i:l.xb7 +-.

2 ... i.d4 3 @e2 b6 4 :i:l.dS i.f6 5 tbd3 l:!c3?!

6 :i:l.bS hS 7@d2 h4 8 tbf4 h3 9 g3 @g8 10 tbdS

:i:l.f3 ll @e2 i.d412 tbe3 i.cS 13 b4 i.fS 14 aS

bxaS 15 bxaS a6 16 nh8 @f7 17 tbxg4 :i:l.fS 18

f41-0

ElG.03

B.Spassky-A.Shirov

Paris 2000

l@c2?

Now Black will retain at least one active

rook. 1 @cl! completely neutralizes the black

initiative: l ... :i:l.xe6 (I .. .fxe6 2 :i:l.dl :i:l.f8 3 f3 =) 2

ndl :i:l.de8 3 @c2 = (Finkel in CBM).

1. ..:i:l.e2+ 2 @b3 fxe6 3 :i:l.adl nd6! 4 :i:l.xd6

cxd6 5 :!:!.ti. dS 6 a4 @f7 7 a5 eS 8 @a3 @e6 9

b3 g5 10 @b4 hS 11 h3 e4 12 g3 @eS 13 @cs

:i:l.d2 14 @b4 h4 15 gxh4 gxh4 16 a6 bxa6 17

nat :i:l.xf2 18 :i:l.xa6 :i:l.f719 :i:l.h6 e3 0-1

ElG.04

A.Seleznlev

Shakhmatny Listok, 1930

1 @£7 e3 2 tbf6+ @h8 3 tbdS e2 4 tbf4 el'&

5 tbxg6+ @h7 6 tbf8+

with perpetual check.

ElG.05

R.Kuczynski - C.Bauer

Saint Vincent Ech 2000

1 l:!a8?

For once, passive defence is correct: 1 :!:!.al !

:i:l.b2+ 2 @fl .ktf2+ 3 @gl :i:l.c2 4 @fl @e3 5

:i:l.a3+ @d2 6 :!:!.al = (Hecht in CBM).

1 ••. :!:l.b2+ 2 wn ru2+?

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