how to play chess endgames book

84 How TO PLAY CHESS ENDGAMES
material!". We have actua!Jy found in our database
numerous examples by low-rated players
in which overwhelmingly won positions, sometimes
with great material advantage, were spoilt
through an over-hasty liquidation to a pawn
ending. The reason was generally a lazy attitude
towards calculating variations and the desire
for a quick and easy victory in the pawn
ending. So at this point we give a word of
warning: it is not important to win quickly; the
important thing is to win! On this theme here
is another example showing that even 2700-
players are merely human:
with ... g5. 4 ... @e7? loses: 5 @f3 @f7 (5 ... @d7
6 @f4 @c6 7 @g5 @d5 8 @f6 a5 9 b3 +-) 6
@f4 a5 7 @g5 @g7 8 b3 -!-.
5@f3@f7 6@e4 (D)
6 b3!? Wg7 7 @e4 @h6 8 @e3 g5! 9 @d4
@g6 10 @e4 @h6 =.
B
6 ... gS! 7 @d4 ~g6 8 @c5
8@e4? a4-+.
8 ••. gxh4 9 gxh4 @f5 10 @b5
IO@d6? a4 -+.
10 ... @xeS 11 @xa5 @d4 112.11z
4.07
V.lvanchuk - R.Kasimdzhanov
Elista OL 1998
1 l!xe6??
An utterly unbelievable error for a player of
Ivanchuk's class; unbelievable not so much because
of his miscalculation of the pawn endgame
- with such a difficult pawn ending this
can obviously happen even to an Ivanchuk -
but because of his impatient approach. I l';!.d7!
would have won easily. 1...lZ'.ig7 ( l...lZ'.ic5 2 l';!.c7
~d5 3 e6 +-) 2 l!a7 lZ'.if5 (could this have been
what Ivanchuk feared?) 3 l';!,xf5 (otherwise there
follows ... lZ'.ie3-g4+) 3 ... gxf5 4 Wlg5+ @h8 5
'&xh5+ @g8 6 '&g5+ @h8 7 ~xf5 +-.
1 ••.'*'xe6 2 '&xe6 fxe6 3 I!xf8+ @xf8 4 ~g2
a5!?
It is essential for Black to keep his king on
the kingside, on the one hand to prevent the
white king from penetrating there and on the
other hand to have the possibility of breaking
We shouldn't like to move onto the next section
of exercises without showing you that the
best player of all time is of course capable of
better:
4.08
G.Kasparov - M.Vukic
Skara Echt 1980