Beautiful breakthroughs

by Karsten Müller
7/18/2023 – Pawn majorities can be used to organize a breakthrough. 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.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nxe5 d6 4.Nf3 Nxe4 5.Nc3 Nxc3 6.dxc3 Nc6 7.Be3 Be7 8.Qd2 Bf5 9.0-0-0 Qd7 10.Bc4 0-0 11.Kb1 Rae8 12.h3 Be4 13.Rhe1 Bf6 14.Bd5 Qf5 15.Bxe4 Rxe4 16.Qd3 h6 17.Re2 Rfe8 18.Rde1 Qg6 19.g4 Ne5 20.Nxe5 R4xe5 21.Qc4 c5 22.a4 b6 23.Bf4 d5 24.Qb5 Rxe2 25.Rxe2 Rxe2 26.Qxe2 Qe4 27.Qxe4 dxe4 28.Bb8 a6 29.Ba7 Bd8 30.c4 a5 31.c3 g6 32.b4 axb4 33.cxb4 cxb4 34.Kc2 f5 35.gxf5 gxf5 36.c5 bxc5 37.Bxc5 Beautiful breakthroughs Pawn majorities can be used to organize a breakthrough. In the diagram position it is Black to move and win. What should he do?
Black to move and win
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Vachier-Lagrave,M2736Abdusattorov,N2731½–½2023C42Chessable Masters Div 2 2023100.4

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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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