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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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74 How TO PLAY CHESS ENDGAMES

Exercises

(Solutions on pages 292-4)

E3.03 ~

What finesse did White exploit here?

E3.0l ***/

White has a great space advantage, whereas

Black must protect his weak d6-pawn and is

practically reduced to shuffling his king between

f7 and f8. It is obvious that in the long

run White can only make progress with the

breakthrough g5. Can you see a way for

White to improve his position first?

E3.04 /*

Find the best move for Black.

E3.02 **/

How should White make use of

his initiative?

E3.05 /*

Which subtle technical move would have

brought Black victory?

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