CBM training: Caruana's King – Endgames from Italy
5/6/2012 – Distant opposition; via the queenside to the kingside; the blockade; Caruana's
king – these are the themes that crop up in the positions that our endgame
specialist Dr Karsten Müller – of ChessBase
Magazin fame – has extracted from the recent Italian Team Championships.
His analysis and annotations will give your practical tournament rating a boost.
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Distant opposition
Opposition is one of the major techniques in pawn endings:
Via the queenside to the kingside
Pure opposite colored bishop endings have a very large drawish tendency:
The blockade
Knights are concrete and tactical pieces, so knight endings can be very tricky:
Caruana's king
With mobile passed pawns on both wings a bishop is often superior to a knight:
Karsten Müller in ChessBase Magazine
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