1/5/2016 – Every week ChessBase magazine author and renowned endgame expert Karsten Müller presents a remarkable or particularly instructive endgame in his blog. A click on the diagram opens a larger board. Test your endgame skills, improve and have fun!
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Hunting knights
White to move. Find the right route for the knight.
1.e4c52.Nf3d63.d4cxd44.Nxd4Nf65.Nc3a66.h3e57.Nf3Be78.Bc4Be69.Bb30-010.0-0Nc611.Bg5Rc812.Qe2Na513.Rfd1Nxb314.axb3Qc715.Bxf6Bxf616.Ne1Bg517.Nd5Qd818.c4Bxd519.Rxd5Qb620.Qd3Rc621.Rd1g622.Nf3Be723.Nd2Rc524.Rxc5Qxc525.Nf1b526.Ne3Bg527.Nd5Rb828.Qc3Kg729.Ra1bxc430.bxc4Qd431.Qxd4exd432.Rd1Rxb233.Rxd4a534.g3Rd235.Rxd2Bxd236.Nb6Kf637.Kf1Bb438.f4Ke639.Ke2Bc540.Na4Bd441.g4f542.exf5+gxf543.Kd3Bg144.Nc3Bc545.Na4Ba346.Nc3Bc147.Ne2Bb248.Nd4+Kd749.Nxf5Bc150.Nd4Bxf451.Kc2Bg352.Kb3Bf253.Nb5Kc654.Nc3Bh455.Ne4d556.cxd5+Kxd557.Nc3+Kd458.Nb5+Ke559.Nc7Bd860.Nb5Kf461.Nd4Kg362.Ne6Be763.Ka4Kxh364.g5Kg465.g6hxg666.Kxa5Kf567.Nd4+Ke568.Nc6+Kd669.Kb5g570.Nd4Kd5Hunting knights In
a knight vs bishop duel the knight often has to be extremely careful:71.Nf5?The wrong square.Only the direct71.Nf3!chases and captures the
pawn:g472.Nh2g373.Nf1g274.Ne3+=71.Ne2?g472.Ng3Bh473.Nf5Bf274.Kb4Ke575.Ne7g376.Ng6+Ke477.Nh4Be378.Kc3Bg579.Ng2Kf380.Ne1+Ke281.Ng2Kf2-+71.Nc2?Ke472.Ne1g473.Kc4g374.Kc3Ke375.Ng2+Kf276.Nf4Bd677.Nh3+Ke378.Kc2g279.Kd1Bc580.Ke1Kf3-+71...Bd672.Ne3+After72.Nh6White also hunts
down the knight, e.g.Ke473.Kc4Be574.Ng4Kf475.Nh275.Nh6Bg7-+75...Kg376.Nf1+Kf277.Nd2Ke378.Nf1+Ke279.Kd5Bf4-+72...Ke473.Ng473.Nf1Bf474.Kc4Kf375.Kd3Kf276.Nd2Bxd277.Kxd2g4-+73...Kf474.Nf674.Nf2Kf375.Nh3g476.Ng5+Ke3-+74...Be575.Nd5+75.Nh5+Kg4-+75...Ke4Moving into the
knight-check-shadow with75...Kf3 also wins.76.Ne7g477.Ng6Bf678.Nf8g379.Nd7Bd40–1
Do you like these lessons? There are plenty more by internationally renowned endgame expert Dr Karsten Müller in ChessBase Magazine, where you will also find openings articles and surveys, tactics, and of course annotations by the world's top grandmasters.
Apart from his regular columns and video lectures in ChessBase Magazine there is a whole series of training DVDs by Karsten Müller, which are bestsellers in the ChessBase Shop.
1. Masterful ease: enjoy Kramnik's attacking win over Topalov with the analysis of the ex-world champion.
2. Eljanov-Nakamura: the best player in the World Cup shows how to defeat the best players in the world.
3. Practical repertoire against the Dutch: Erwin l'Ami initiates you into the subtleties of the variation 2.Nc3 d5 3.Bg5 d5 4.e3 (video)
4. What can you do against the Wing Gambit (1.e4 c5 2.b4 cxb4 3.a3)? In his opening article Robert Ris demonstrates new and surprising ways.
5. Chinese elite chess: play through the game Ding Liren-Wei Yi „Move by Move“ with Simon Williams. (Video training)
6. Overwhelming attack, outstanding annotations: enjoy Sutovsky-Shirov with the analyses of the winner (Najdorf Variation with 6.h3).
7. Missed chance in the World Cup final: together with Karsten Müller find a spectacular drawing possibility in an ending with bishops and opposite colours! (Video)
8. Are there strong doubled pawns? Let Mihail Marin show you when doubled pawns signify an advantage and how to exploit it.
9. “Play of the day”: Daniel King documents the dramatic end of the World Cup tiebreaks between Karjakin and Eljanov. (Video analysis)
10. Tactics to open your eyes: enjoy the most amazing tactical point in this issue! (Interactive video by Oliver Reeh)
Karsten MüllerKarsten 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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Experts examine the games of Max Euwe. Let them show you which openings Euwe chose to play, where his strength in middlegames were, which tactical abilities he had or how he outplayed his opponents in the endgame.
This interactive video course of over 8 hours, provides an in-depth exploration of the Pirc Defence, a favoured opening for people looking to play for the win with the black pieces.
Pirc Defence Powerbase 2025 is a database and contains a total of 10027 games from Mega 2025 or the Correspondence Database 2024; of these 874 are annotated.
The Pirc Defence Powerbook 2025 consists for a greater part of engine games (168 000), to which has been added high value material from Mega and the Correspondence Database (115 000).
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