5/10/2012 – Endgame knowledge is not easy to acquire and is thus a valuable weapon. In his Endgame Magic Show on Playchess, the well-known endgame expert GM Karsten Müller will assist you with a bunch of practical endgames. He shows how to handle the positions, which will help improve your results. An example and more information.
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Endgame Magic with GM Karsten Müller
Karsten Müller, critically acclaimed and popular author of
many DVDs and books, has his own show on playchess.com. Once a month he presents
selected examples from practical endgame play and shares his vast practical and
theoretical endgame knowledge with the public. You can ask Karsten questions
during the show and you can also just relax, lean back and let yourself be
quietly entertained and instructed.
The following example is from the Dubai Open 2012. An interesting endgame was played between Negi and Grigoryan. Negi had the White pieces and is to move and win. Try to solve the position for yourself and you will be well
prepared for the Endgame Magic Show, Thursday 4 pm.
The show starts at 4 p.m. or 15:00h British time = 16:00h CET, 18:00h Moscow,
8:30 p.m. Chennai, 23:00h Beijing, 02:00 a.m. Melbourne, 04:00 a.m. Auckland,
7 a.m. San José, 10 a.m. New York. You can check your location
here
Here's an example from the last episode of the Endgame
Magic Show from December 2011:
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Born 1970, Karsten Müller has a world-wide reputation as one of the greatest
endgame experts. He has, together with Frank Lamprecht written a book on the
subject: “Basics of chess endgames” in addition to other contributions such as
his column on the website ChessCafe as well as in ChessBase Magazine. Karsten Müller’s
ChessBase-DVDs about endgames in Fritztrainer-Format are bestsellers. The PhD in
mathematics lives in Hamburg, where he has also been hunting down points for the
HSK in the Bundesliga for many years.
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