A crushing counterblow

by Karsten Müller
8/9/2022 – A piece that is attacked does not have to move - that sounds like a trivial little piece of wisdom but it is good to keep it in mind. In the diagrammed position Black just attacked White's rook with 49...Ke5, apparently forgetting that attacked pieces do not have to move. How should White react to Black's attack?
Let endgame expert Dr Karsten Müller show and explain the finesses of the world champions. Although they had different styles each and every one of them played the endgame exceptionally well, so take the opportunity to enjoy and learn from some of the best endgames in the history of chess.
 
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1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 0-0 8.d3 d6 9.c3 Na5 10.Bc2 c5 11.Nbd2 Nc6 12.h3 Re8 13.a4 Bb7 14.Nf1 h6 15.Ne3 Bf8 16.Bb3 Ne7 17.Bd2 Ng6 18.axb5 axb5 19.Rxa8 Qxa8 20.c4 Bc6 21.cxb5 Bxb5 22.Bxf7+ Kxf7 23.Qb3+ d5 24.Qxb5 Rb8 25.Qa5 Qxa5 26.Bxa5 c4 27.Nxd5 Nxd5 28.exd5 cxd3 29.Bc3 Bb4 30.g3 Rb5 31.h4 Bxc3 32.bxc3 Rxd5 33.h5 Ne7 34.Rxe5 Kf6 35.Re1 Rxh5 36.Rd1 Rd5 37.Nd4 Nf5 38.Rxd3 Nxd4 39.cxd4 Kf5 40.f3 h5 41.Kf2 Rd8 42.d5 Ke5 43.f4+ Kd6 44.Kf3 Re8 45.Rd1 g6 46.Kg2 g5 47.fxg5 Rg8 48.Kh3 Rxg5 49.Rd4 Ke5
White to move and win
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Van Foreest,J2715Harikrishna,P27051–02022C92MCCT Chessable Masters 202213.4

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Do you like these lessons? There are plenty more by internationally renowned endgame expert Dr Karsten Müller in ChessBase Magazine, where you will also find openings articles and surveys, tactics, and of course annotations by the world's top grandmasters.

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Karsten Müller is considered to be one of the greatest endgame experts in the world. His books on the endgame - among them "Fundamentals of Chess Endings", co-authored with Frank Lamprecht, that helped to improve Magnus Carlsen's endgame knowledge - and his endgame columns for the ChessCafe website and the ChessBase Magazine helped to establish and to confirm this reputation. Karsten's Fritztrainer DVDs on the endgame are bestsellers. The mathematician with a PhD lives in Hamburg, and for more than 25 years he has been scoring points for the Hamburger Schachklub (HSK) in the Bundesliga.

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