Karsten Mueller’s Endgame Magic #157 - with Ivan Sokolov

8/23/2021 – Two years after visiting Hamburg to film his middlegame FritzTrainers, Ivan Sokolov visits the ChessBase office once again. The experienced grandmaster discusses instructive endgames with Dr. Karsten Müller in the latest instalment of the Endgame Magic show. | Endgame Magic is on air most Mondays. Watch it on-demand with a ChessBase Premium account.

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Endgame Magic #157

As a warm-up, here is a position from one of Sokolov's games, played in Amsterdam in 2018. Black to move and win.

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