Endgames from the Biel Triathlon

Material imbalances in Navara’s games

The ever-creative David Navara did not shy away from entering highly imbalanced positions in Biel. Facing Vincent Keymer, he demonstrated that an advanced passer can make up for an exchange deficit, while against Arjun Erigaisi, he reached an endgame with a rook and a pawn against six pawns!

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Chess Endgames 14 - The golden guidelines of endgame play

Rules of thumb are the key to everything when you are having to set the correct course in a complex endgame. In this final DVD of his series on the endgame, our endgame specialist introduces you to the most important of these rules of thumb.

David Navara

Keymer’s endgame technique

Recently, Vincent Keymer defeated Magnus Carlsen for the first time in his career and entered the world’s top-30 in the live ratings list. A month earlier, he had shown his technical prowess in Biel. The German prodigy defeated the two top seeds — Yu Yangyi and Le Quang Liem — in the classical section of the Triathlon.

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Vincent Keymer

The importance of activity

Activity is often crucial in endgames, as demonstrated by Yu Yangyi and Le Quang Liem in their games against Bassem Amin and Bogdan-Daniel Deac.

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How to attack - principles of training

Most players prefer to attack rather than defend. But what is the correct way to do it? GM Dr Karsten Müller has compiled many rules and motifs to guide you, along with sharpening your intuition for the exceptions.

Le Quang Liem

Magical Chess Endgames Vol. 1 & 2 + The magic of chess tactics

In over 4 hours in front of the camera, Karsten Müller presents to you sensations from the world of endgames - partly reaching far beyond standard techniques and rules of thumb - and rounds off with some cases of with own examples.

Links

• Endgames from the Global Chess League: Women’s edition | Pragg & Carlsen special
• Endgames from Kazakhstan: 1 | 2 | 3
• Endgames from Vrnjacka Banja: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4
• Endgames from Düsseldorf: 1 | 2
• Endgames from Wijk aan Zee: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4
• Endgames from Miami: 1 | 2 | 3
• Endgames from Chennai: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4
• Endgames from Madrid: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
• Notable endgames: Biel, Dortmund, Zagreb