Endgame Magic with guest Yannick Pelletier

by Karsten Müller
3/6/2018 – Yannick Pelletier is a Swiss Grandmaster and well known DVD author for ChessBase. He's in Hamburg to record a DVD. He's in the organising comitee for the Biel Chess Festival and still very active on the chess board. Today he joins Karsten to look at some fascinating endgames from recent tournament praxis! Live at 15:00 CET (9:00 AM EST)!
Rules of thumb are the key to everything when you are having to set the correct course in a complex endgame. In this final DVD of his series on the endgame, our endgame specialist introduces you to the most important of these rules of thumb.

Endgame Magic #102

Guest: GM Yannick Pelletier

Endgames are the soul of the chess games. This coud be a phrase from GM Karsten Müller. The german grandmaster is one of the leading experts when it comes to endgames, with numerous published books and DVD's about this phase of the game. In his Endgame Magic Show Müller invites strong players and shows recent examples of the tournament praxis. Live at 15:00 CET (10:00 AM EDT):

 
Vogel vs Burcu, White to move and draw
White to move

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The show Endgame Magic is one of the major shows in the video portal. Nearly 100 episodes have been recorded. Karsten Müller is going on air around once a month always inviting a guest into his endgame world to discuss recent examples. But he also tests his guest with their very own endgames. 

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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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