Black knight magic

by Karsten Müller
7/5/2022 – Knights are tactical pieces and often very tricky. Black to move and draw.
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 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.Bg5 Ne4 6.Bf4 0-0 7.e3 c5 8.cxd5 Bf5 9.Bd3 Nxc3 10.bxc3 Qxd5 11.0-0 Nc6 12.Bxf5 Qxf5 13.Qb1 b6 14.Qxf5 gxf5 15.Rab1 cxd4 16.Nxd4 Rfc8 17.Nxf5 Bxc3 18.Rfc1 Bf6 19.g4 Kf8 20.g5 Bh8 21.Rc2 Nd8 22.Rd2 e5 23.Bg3 Ne6 24.h4 Rd8 25.Rbd1 Rxd2 26.Rxd2 Rd8 27.Rxd8+ Nxd8 28.Kg2 Ke8 29.Kf3 Kd7 30.Kg4 f6 31.e4 fxg5 32.hxg5 Nf7 33.f3 Kc6 34.Kh5 b5 35.Be1 Kd7 36.Bb4 Ke6 37.Ba5 Kd7 38.Bb4 Ke6 39.Bc5 a6 40.Bb4 Kd7 41.Ba5 Ke6 42.Bb6 Kd7 43.Nh6 Nd6 44.Bc5 Nb7 45.Ba3 Nd8 46.Bb2 b4 47.f4 a5 48.f5 a4 49.Ng4 Nf7 50.g6 hxg6+ 51.fxg6 Nd6 52.Bxe5 Bxe5 53.Nxe5+ Kc7 54.Nd3 Black knight magic Knights are tactical pieces and often very tricky:
Black to move and draw
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Thybo,J2559Ragger,M2656½–½2022D91German Bundesliga 2021-225.3

Karsten Mueller 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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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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