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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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62 How TO PLAY CHESS ENDGAMES

1 c5! tbe6

l...dxc5 2 l:td7 tbe6 3 l:te7 +-.

2 cxd6! tbxd8 3 dxc7 lbb7! 4 c8l:t! tbxa5 5

l:tc5 lbb7 6 l:tc6#

Exercises

(Solutions on pages 289-92)

10 @f3 exf4 11 @xf4 (11 lbb3+ @e5 12

tba5 h3 13 tbc6+ @d6 14 tbxb4 h2 15 @g2

©e5 =) 1l...h312e5 h2 13 tbf3+@c3 14 lbxh2

b3 15 e6 b216 e7bl\W 17 e8~~f5+ =.

10 •.. exf4 ll @g4?!

11 e5 @xe5 12@g4 b3 13 lbxb3 f3 14 tbd2

f2 15 tbfl @e4 =.

u ... @e3

Now White must even force the draw.

12 e5! @xd2 13 e6 b3 14 e7 b2 15 e8\W bl~

16 @xf4 '&rs+ 11 @g3 \Wxg5+ is @CJ ~rs+

19 @g3 g5 20 '&d8+ @el 21 ~d4 ~r4+ lfl.1/z

Naturally the power of the pawn has also attracted

the interest of study composers. The

following study was considered by Selezniev

himself as his best achievement.

E2.01 */

Who is better?

2.35

A.Selezniev

Deutsche Schachzeitung. 1919

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