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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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36 How TO PLAY CHESS ENDGAMES

(3 ... 1:lf4 41:lb8 g3 5 1:la8 .ID'2+ 6 ~gl ~h3 7

1:lh8+ =) 41:lb8 ee,

1 ... 1:la2+ 2 @gl @h3 31:lb3+ g3 41:lbl 1:la3 B

51:lcl gS 61:lbl g4 71:lcl g2 81:lbl 1:lf3 0-1

White resigned in view of 9 1:lal 1:lfl+ 10

1:lxfl gxfl WI+ 11 @xfl ~h2 -+.

Exercises

{Solutions on pages 288-9)

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Black to move and hold the draw.

El.21 /****

In an almost hopeless position,

Black found a way out. Can you?

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At first sight it seems that White has

everything under control. How did Black

show that this was not the case?

C) Activity in General

To end this chapter, we shall look at another game

which shows not only that active pieces are

generally better than passive ones, but also that

it is important to keep sight of the big picture.

1.27

M.lonescu - V.lordachescu

Bucharest 2003

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How could Black have saved the game here?

1 lbf3 lbf6 2 c4 e6 3 g3 dS 4 d4 dxc4 5 .i.g2

.i.b4+ 6 .i.d2 .i.e7 7 Wla4+ .i.d7 8 W!xc4 .i.c6 9

lbc3 lbe4 !

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