The best endgames of the year

by Karsten Müller
12/22/2024 – The chess tournament scene has exploded in recent years. And in addition to many exciting attacking games, there are also many amazing and instructive endgames. Karsten Müller is one of the world's greatest endgame experts. The sensitive radar of the grandmaster from Hamburg hardly misses an instructive endgame that has been played on this planet. At the end of the year, Müller shared with us the best, most interesting and most instructive endgames of the year.

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Six endgame gems

It is worth mastering the endgame, especially because time is often short when we reach this deciding phase of the game.

Our in-house endgame expert, Karsten Müller, has selected six endgames played in 2024 which he considers particularly outstanding. They are presented in random order.

Fabiano Caruana

Fabiano Caruana at the 2024 Sinquefield Cup | Photo: Crystal Fuller

Luis Engel

Luis Engel | Photo: André Schulz

Shakhriyar Mamedyarov

Shakhriyar Mamedyarov | Photo: Lennart Ootes

Viswanathan Anand

Vishy Anand | Photo: Amruta Mokal

Vaishali Rameshbabu

Vaishali Rameshbabu at the 2024 Women's Candidates Tournament | Photo: Michal Walusza

Max Warmerdam

Max Warmerdam | Photo: Harry Gielen


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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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