Be careful!

by Karsten Müller
11/19/2024 – You should be extra careful before liquidating into a pawn endgame. In the diagram position it is Black to move and win. What should he do?
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.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Bf4 c5 4.e3 Nc6 5.Nbd2 Bg4 6.c3 e6 7.Bb5 cxd4 8.exd4 Bd6 9.Bxd6 Qxd6 10.0-0 0-0 11.Re1 Rfe8 12.Qa4 Bxf3 13.Nxf3 a6 14.Bxc6 Qxc6 15.Qxc6 bxc6 16.Ne5 Rec8 17.Nd3 Nd7 18.b4 a5 19.a4 Rc7 20.Ra2 Kf8 21.Kf1 Ke7 22.Ke2 Rca7 23.Rea1 g5 24.h3 f6 25.Kd2 e5 26.b5 cxb5 27.axb5 Kd6 28.Nb4 a4 29.Nc6 Rb7 30.Rxa4 Rxa4 31.Rxa4 Rxb5 32.Ra6 Rb6 33.Nb4 Rxa6 34.Nxa6 h5 35.Nb4 h4 36.Ke3 Nb6 37.f3 Ke6 38.Nc2 Nc8 39.Nb4 Ne7 40.Nc2 Ng6 41.Kf2 Nf4 42.Ne3 Nd3+ 43.Ke2 Nb2 44.Kd2 Be careful! You should be extra careful before liquidating into a pawn endgame. In the diagram position it is Black to move and win. What should he do?
Black to move and win
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Michaelides,K2297Navara,D26810–12024D0245th FIDE Olympiad 20241.73

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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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