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Superbet’s Marsel Efroimski took home an individual gold medal after showing a truly strong performance on the fourth board. In the first round, she proved that rook and bishop against rook is very difficult to defend even when the defender has a pawn left on the board.
In the fifth round, Adi Federovski, who played on board 2 for Rishon Lezion, was defending fiercely against Gambit Asseco See’s Ljilja Drljevic. Only on move 140, in an ending with queen and knight versus queen and bishop, did Federovski falter.
Pure opposite-coloured bishop endings have a very large drawish tendency, and fortresses are the main defensive recourse. But even in these cases, precision in finding the correct king path is needed. As seen in the game between Anna Muzychuk and Alina Kashlinskaya.
One might think it does not make much of a difference, but playing 36.Kg2 or 36.Kf1 can decide the fate of the game. Muzychuk chose the latter, and went on to draw the game, while placing her king on g2 would have given her a full point.
Find this game’s full analysis plus three more instructive endgames in the replayer below.
Magical Chess Endgames Vol. 1 & 2 + The magic of chess tactics
In over 4 hours in front of the camera, Karsten Müller presents to you sensations from the world of endgames - partly reaching far beyond standard techniques and rules of thumb - and rounds off with some cases of with own examples.
