The pawn race

by Karsten Müller
10/25/2022 – Pawn endings should be calculated very carefully. In the diagrammed position it is White to move and draw. How?
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.d4 c5 2.e3 cxd4 3.exd4 Nf6 4.Nf3 g6 5.Be2 Bg7 6.0-0 0-0 7.c4 d5 8.h3 dxc4 9.Bxc4 Nbd7 10.Be3 Nb6 11.b3 Nxc4 12.bxc4 Bf5 13.Nc3 Rc8 14.c5 b6 15.Rc1 bxc5 16.dxc5 Qa5 17.Qa4 Qxa4 18.Nxa4 Rfd8 19.c6 Be4 20.Nd4 Ne8 21.Nb5 Rxc6 22.Nxa7 Rxc1 23.Rxc1 Bd4 24.Bxd4 Rxd4 25.Nc5 Bd5 26.Nb3 Ra4 27.Nc8 Re4 28.Nc5 Re5 29.f4 Re2 30.Kf1 Rd2 31.Nxe7+ Kg7 32.Nxd5 Rxd5 33.a4 Nc7 34.Ke2 Ne6 35.Nxe6+ fxe6 36.Rd1 Ra5 37.Rd4 Kf6 38.Kf3 h6 39.g4 g5 40.fxg5+ hxg5 41.Re4 e5 42.Ke3 Ke6 43.Kd3 Kd5 44.Rb4 Kd6 45.Kc3 Rc5+ 46.Kb3 Kd5 47.Rb5 Rxb5+ 48.axb5 Kc5 49.Kc3 Kxb5 50.Kd3 Kc5 51.Ke4 Kd6 52.Kf5 Kd5 The pawn race Pawn endings should be calculated very carefully:
White to move and draw
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Pinder,T1183Ibtihal Mohammed14450–12022E6044th Chess Olympiad Women 20226.65

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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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Apart from his regular columns and video lectures in ChessBase Magazine there is a whole series of training DVDs by Karsten Mueller, which are bestsellers in the ChessBase Shop.

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Karsten Mueller regularly presents endgame lessons in the ChessBase Video Portal

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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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