The eternal duel between bishop and knight II

9/22/2009 – At the Grand Slam Masters in Bilbao Alexander Grischuk took second place behind Levon Aronian. Whereas he had good results with white and won two of those games, he had to submit to two defeats as black. GM Karsten Müller has annotated for ChessBase Magazine Online Grischuk's pretty endgame success against Alexei Shirov from round two. In it, it is once again the bishop which triumphs over the knight.Analysis of the ending Grischuk-Shirov Endgame DVDs

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