Be careful when exchanging

by Karsten Müller
2/24/2015 – "Take care" is a good advice but people are often to careless to follow it. In life this can hurt, in chess one careless moment can ruin hours of concentration and effort. Imagine you reach a won endgame after 50 moves and all it takes to win is the right exchange. Here, it pays to be careful. Karsten Müller shows you how to train this valuable skill.
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Be careful when exchanging


 

Black to move. The right continuation is 52... Bxc3, 52... Bxe3+ or 52... hxg3+?

 

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Karsten Müller in ChessBase Magazine

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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Apart from his regular columns and video lectures in ChessBase Magazine there is a whole series of training DVDs by Karsten Müller, which are bestsellers in the ChessBase Shop.

 

ChessBase Magazine #164 (Feb./March)

Introduction by Karsten Müller

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Review by Sagar Shah

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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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