how to play chess endgames book

THE RIGHT EXCHANGE 93
B
invest a lot of time and energy in order to make
the right decision. To break off from a promising
attack, you need to be 100% sure that the resulting
endgame offers winning chances that
are at least as good as you would get from continuing
the attack. When carrying out such a
liquidation, you should not let yourself be
fobbed off too cheaply. But you must have the
necessary positional understanding, as well as
sufficient confidence in your endgame technique,
to make the right decision, and you must
play whatever the position may require.
E4.22 /*
Who would benefit more from
an exchange of rooks?
w
4.18
M.Gurevich - M.Krasenkow
Jakarta 1996
E4.23 ***/
Should the rook be exchanged with l ~b6?
F) Simplification into an
Endgame
If one side has the possibility of exchanging
into an endgame, this is always a critical point
in the game. In such a situation you often have
to calculate many moves ahead and accurately
evaluate a position of a completely different
character compared with the type of position
reached in the game up to that point.
Often you are faced with the difficult decision
between continuing an attack or going into
an endgame. Such a moment is always a real
turning-point in the game, where you have to
White has the difficult choice between continuing
his attack with I Wt'b8+ and liquidating
into an endgame with l lbxf6. What would you
have done?
l lbxf'6?
I '&b8+! would have won by force: l...@e7 2
~c7+!@xe6 (2...<l,Jf8 3 e7+!@e84lbd6+1:ixd6
5 '1¥ixd6 +-; 2 ... <t>e8 3 lbd6+! l:ixd6 4 '1¥ixd6 +-
intending '&g3) 3 lbc5+ Wd.5 (3 ... @f5 4 ~xh7+
l;ixh751:ixd4 +-) 4 ~d8+@xc5 5 '&xd4+ <t>b5
6 '&a4+ @b6 7 '&b3+! @c7 (7 ... <t>c5 8 '&b4+
<t>d5 9 l:id4+ @e6 10 Wib3+ @f5 11 W/d3+ @e6
I 2 l;id6+ @e5 13 '&d4+ <t>f5 14 l:ixf6+ l:ixf6 15
\Wd3+ is also winning for White) 8 Wlg3+ @b6
9 J;ib4+ @c5 10 Wlc3+ <l,>d6 11 l;id4+ @e7
(I l...@c7 12 W/a5+ +-) 12 Wle3+@f8131:id8+
@g7 14 l:id7+ +-.
l. .. l;ixf4 2 lbxh7+ l:txh7 3 l;ixf4+ <t>e7 4
l;if7+!?