12/29/2015 – 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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Powerful pawns
White sacrificed the knight by 65.Sxb5 Sxb5 66.Kc4 in order to create powerful pawns. What is the right continuation after 66...Sd6+ then?
1.Nf3Nf62.c4e63.g3d54.Bg2Be75.0-00-06.d4b67.cxd5exd58.Nc3Bb79.Bf4a610.Rc1Nbd711.Ne5Bd612.Nd3Qe713.Qb3Bxf414.Nxf4c615.Rfe1Ne416.Bh3f517.Ncxd5cxd518.Rc7Nd619.e4Kh820.e5Rac821.Rxc8Nxc822.Rc1Nb823.Nxd5Qd724.Bg2Nc625.Qe3Re826.Nf4b527.Nd3Ba828.d5Na529.e6Qe730.b3Nb731.Ne5Nbd632.Qc5Bb733.f4Kg834.h4Ne435.Bxe4Qxc5+36.Rxc5fxe437.Nf7e338.Kf1Bxd539.Rxd5Rxe640.Ne5Nd641.Ke2h542.Kxe3Nf5+43.Kf3Rd644.Rxd6Nxd645.Nc6Kf746.g4hxg4+47.Kxg4Kf648.Kf3Kg649.b4Nc450.Ke4Kh551.Ne5Nb652.Nf3Na453.Kd3Kg454.Nd4g655.f5gxf556.h5Kxh557.Nxf5Kg558.Nd6Kf659.Ne8+Ke560.Nc7Nb2+61.Kc2Nc462.Kc3Ke463.Nxa6Nd664.Nc7Ke3Powerful pawns
Piece sacrifices in knight endings occur relatively often because knights have
more problems to cope with pawns than bishops:65.Nxb5!Nxb5+66.Kc4Nd6+66...Na3+67.Kc5Kd368.b5+-67.Kd5!The idea of the piece
sacrifice. Now the powerful pawns cannot be stopped.67.Kc5?fails toNe4+68.Kc668.Kc4Nd2+69.Kd5Kd370.a4Kc371.a5Kxb472.a6Kb573.a7Nc474.a8QNb6+=68...Kd469.a4Kc470.a5Nc371.a6Nb5=67...Nc867...Nb568.Kc5Nc369.b5Nxa270.b6Nc371.b7Ne4+72.Kc6+-67...Nb768.a4+-67...Ne468.b5Nc3+69.Kc6Nxa270.b6Nb4+71.Kb5!Nd572.b7Nc7+73.Ka5+-67...Ne868.b5Nc7+69.Kc6Ne670.a4+-68.Kc568.b5Kd369.Kc5!+-transposes68...Kd369.b569.a4Kc370.a5Kb371.b5also wins, e.g.Ka472.b6Kxa573.b7Nb674.Kc6+-69...Kc370.a4!70.b6?would be premature because ofNxb671.Kxb6Kb4=with a draw.70...Ne770...Kb3!?fails to71.a5Ka472.b6Kxa573.b7Nb674.Kc6+-71.a51–0
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.
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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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