Endgame Magic #209: Endgame highlights from the FTX Cryto Cup in Miami

by Karsten Müller
8/29/2022 – The tournaments of the Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour always produce lead to fascinating endgames. In the Endgame Magic show #209 Karsten Müller looks at endgame highlights from the FTX Crypto Cup in Miami. | You can watch the Endgame Magic Show on-demand with a ChessBase Premium account.
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Endgame Magic #209

The winner of the FTX Crypto Cup was Magnus Carlsen. The diagram below shows a position from his match against Jan-Krzysztof Duda. How did Carlsen win this crucial game?

 

 
J-K Duda - M.Carlsen, FTX Crypto Cup 2022
Black to move and win

 

 

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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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