The power of the triple pawns – more endgames from Plovdiv

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4/12/2012 – Our ChessBase Magazin expert Dr Karsten Müller continues to select interesting and instructive endings, again taken from the high-quality games of the European Individual Championship, with 350 participants, fifteen rated over 2700. Subjects: opposite colored bishops, duel rook vs bishop, deadly tripled pawns and Areshchenko's Attack. Good for training on some additional Elo points.

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Opposite colored bishops favor the attacker

Pure opposite colored bishop endings have a very large drawish tendency. However, when more pieces are on the board matters are completely different:

The duel rook against bishop

Usually a rook is much stronger than a bishop in a technical endgame, but if the bishop has targets to attack matters may be different:

Deadly Tripled Pawn

Usually it is of course better to have a healthy pawn structure, but in chess there is no rule without exception:

Areshchenko's Attack

Queen endings sometimes look confusing for humans due to the many possible queen moves and checks:

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