The breakthrough

by Karsten Müller
12/13/2022 – Opposite colored bishop endings often have drawish tendencies and fortresses are often the main topic. But sometimes creating passed pawns makes the fortresses crumble. In the diagram position it is Black to move and win. What should he do?
Let endgame expert Dr Karsten Müller show and explain the finesses of the world champions. Although they had different styles each and every one of them played the endgame exceptionally well, so take the opportunity to enjoy and learn from some of the best endgames in the history of chess.
 
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1.e4 c5 2.c3 Nf6 3.e5 Nd5 4.Bc4 Nb6 5.Bb3 d6 6.exd6 Qxd6 7.Na3 a6 8.Ne2 Nc6 9.0-0 Bf5 10.d4 cxd4 11.Nxd4 Nxd4 12.cxd4 e6 13.Qf3 Qc6 14.Qg3 Bxa3 15.bxa3 0-0 16.Bh6 Bg6 17.Rac1 Qe4 18.Rfe1 Qd3 19.Bf4 Nd5 20.Bd6 Rfd8 21.Bxd5 exd5 22.Be7 Rdc8 23.Rxc8+ Rxc8 24.Bc5 Qd2 25.Qe5 h6 26.h4 b6 27.Bb4 Qxa2 28.h5 Be4 29.f3 Bd3 30.Qf4 Qc2 31.Kh2 Bf5 32.Re7 Be6 33.Bd6 Qf5 34.Qxf5 Bxf5 35.g4 Bd3 36.Rc7 Ra8 37.Rb7 b5 38.Rb8+ Rxb8 39.Bxb8 a5 40.Bd6 The breakthrough Opposite colored bishop endings have drawish tendencies and fortresses are often the main topic. But sometimes creating passed pawns makes the fortresses crumble. In the diagram position it is Black to move and win. What should he do?
Black to move and win
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Delchev,A2503Saric,I26680–12022B22German Bundesliga 2022-237.3

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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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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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