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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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70 How TO PLAY CHESS ENDGAMES

11 ... gS?

He should wait with, for example, I I....te7.

12 hxgS hxg513@f3@g714 <;i,e4

14@g4~g615llhl .te716f3llh8 I7l;!.dh2

'1xh2 18 ~xh2 ± (Stohl) also came strongly

into consideration.

14 ••• .te7 15 '1hl ~h8 16 l:lddl <;i,g6 17

lixh8 ltxh8 18 llcl .td8 19 ~bl!? (D)

3.07

K.Aseev- E.lnarkiev

Russian Ch (Elista) 2001

1. ..tbd4 2 J1cdl .tb7 3 ~d2 lies 41;.!fdl as

5 @fl .taS 6 h4 lia7 7 .te3 h6?!

Every pawn move creates weaknesses and

represents a commitment, since a pawn cannot

be moved back.

8 .txd4 exd4 9 e5!

White seizes the chance to break up the black

bishop-pair.

9 .•. .trs

9 ....txg2+ 10 @xg2 .txe5 11 Xle2 .tf6 12

~xe6 @f7 13 J;rdel lie? 14 lixe7+ Le7 15

lbd3 .td6 16 @f3 ;!;.

10 .txas ~xa8 11 @e2 ( D)

This mysterious rook move in the timetrouble

phase is a shrewd one. White would

like to implement his pawn-breaks a3 or f4 as

favourably as possible and hopes that Black

will do something rash.

19 ••• .tb6

19 ... .te? 20 Xlal llf8 21 lbd3 ± (Stohl); the

opening of the second front with a3 follows.

20 lift llh2 21 lbd3 ssa 22 M3 .tb6?!

Jt would be better to move his rook back to

h8.

23@g4 h7 24 llgl .tb6 (D)

Now lnarkiev commits a typical error and

plays on the wing where he is weaker, which in

the end only leads to an opening of the position

favourable to White:

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