Endgame Magic #201 with Daniel Fernandez: Endgame Highlights from the Candidates Tournament

by Karsten Müller
7/4/2022 – The Candidates Tournament was the most important tournament of the year, and Ian Nepomniachtchi won convincingly. Endgame expert and aficionado Karsten Müller selected a few highlights from the first rounds to analyze them together with his guest Daniel Fernandez. | You can watch the Endgame Magic Show on-demand with a ChessBase Premium account.
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Endgame Magic #201

In the position below it is White to move and win. There are several ways, but one is most clear-cut. Can you see what Rapport should have played?

 

 

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Topics: Endgame, Endgame Magic, Karsten Mueller, Video portal
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.