Endgame Magic #210: Endgame highlights from the St. Louis Rapid & Blitz Tournament FTX Cryto Cup in Miami

by Karsten Müller
9/5/2022 – In the Endgame Magic Show #210 Arne Kähler and Karsten Müller look at endgame highlights from the St. Louis Rapid & Blitz tournament, which Alireza Firouzja won with four rounds to spare. | You can watch the Endgame Magic Show on-demand with a ChessBase Premium account.

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Endgame Magic #210

In the diagrammed position below Black has two powerful passed pawns that should decide the game in his favour. However, he has to be careful that White does not escape into a perpetual. How should Black proceed?

 

 

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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.