The power of passed pawns

by Karsten Müller
1/17/2023 – In the diagram position both sides have dangerous passed pawns. But it is Black to move - and he can win by making the most of his passed pawns. 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.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 c5 3.Nf3 Nc6 4.g3 g6 5.Bg2 d6 6.d4 cxd4 7.Nxd4 Bd7 8.0-0 Bg7 9.Nc2 h5 10.h4 0-0 11.Bg5 Rc8 12.Qd2 Re8 13.Rfd1 Qa5 14.Rac1 Be6 15.Ne3 a6 16.b3 Ng4 17.Ned5 Kf8 18.Na4 Qxd2 19.Bxd2 Nd4 20.Nf4 b5 21.Nb6 Rb8 22.Nxe6+ fxe6 23.Nd7+ Kg8 24.Nxb8 Nxe2+ 25.Kf1 Nxc1 26.Nxa6 Nd3 27.cxb5 Ndxf2 28.Rb1 Rf8 29.Ke2 Bd4 30.Nb4 d5 31.Nc6 Bc5 32.Rf1 d4 33.Bg5 e5 34.b4 d3+ 35.Kd2 Bb6 36.Re1 Bc7 37.a4 e4 38.Bxe4 Bxg3 39.Bd5+ Kh8 40.Rxe7 Nh3 41.b6 Nxg5 42.hxg5 Nf2 43.Ne5 Bf4+ 44.Kc3 Rc8+ 45.Kb3 Bxe5 46.Rxe5 d2 47.Bf3 Rf8 48.Be2 h4 49.Rc5 h3 50.Rc4 Kg7 51.a5 h2 52.Rh4 Re8 53.Bd1 The power of passed pawns In the diagram position both sides have dangerous passed pawns. But it is Black to move - and he can win by making the most of his passed pawns. How?
Black to move and win
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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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