1/5/2010 – An active king often plays a decisive part in rook endings. If
it can support a passed pawn in its advance, then the king and pawn form
an extremely deadly duo. So the ability of the rook to cut off the king
horizontally or vertically from one of the theatres of war and thus to
restrict its activity is an important weapon in the arsenal of endgame technique.
Karsten Müller has selected a recent endgame in which the theme of the
barrier and the struggle against it are in the foreground.
Analysis of
Brynell-Popov
for
ChessBase Magazine
Online.