3/15/2016 – Every week ChessBase magazine author and renowned endgame expert Karsten Müller presents a remarkable or particularly instructive endgame in his blog. A click on the diagram opens a larger board. Test your endgame skills, improve and have fun!
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1.e4g62.d4Bg73.Nc3d54.Nxd5c65.Ne3Qxd46.Qxd4Bxd47.c3Bg78.f3Nd79.Nh3Nc510.Nf2Nf611.Nd3Nfd712.Nxc5Nxc513.Nd1Be614.Be3Na415.Kd2f516.Kc2fxe417.fxe4Nb618.b3Nd719.Be20-020.Re1Ne521.h3b622.Nb2c523.Rf1Rfc824.Bf4c425.b4Nd326.Bg5a527.a3Rc728.Be3Rca729.b5a430.Bxd3cxd3+31.Nxd3Bb3+32.Kb2Rc833.Rac1Rc434.e5Re435.Rfe1Bc436.Nb4Rd737.Bd4Rxe138.Rxe1Bxb539.Kc2Bc440.Nd3e641.Nf2Bd542.Ne4Bxe4+43.Rxe4b544.Bc5Rd545.Bd4Bf846.Kb2Rd747.Rf4Rf748.Rxf7Kxf749.Be3Ke850.Bc1Bg751.Bf4Bf852.Bc1Kd753.c4Kc654.Kc3Bc555.Bb2Bf256.Kb4Be1+57.Bc3Bxc3+58.Kxc3Kc559.cxb5Kxb560.Kd4g561.g3h562.h4g463.Kd3Kc564.Kc3Kd565.Kb4Kxe566.Kxa4When running ahead backfires Pawn races have to be calculated precisely
- and it usually is not enough to just count moves:Kd4?Putting all your
hopes on the d-pawn is too narrow an approach.66...Ke4!keeps more
options open and shows faith in Black's most advanced pawn: the one on g4.67.Kb367.Kb5Kf3and White loses in similar fashion.67...Kf368.a4Kxg369.a5Kxh470.a6g371.a7g272.a8Qg1Q73.Qe4+73.Qd8+Kh3-+73...Qg4-+67.Kb3!e568.a4e469.a5e3?Running ahead backfires.
After69...Kd3!70.a6e371.a7e272.a8Qe1Q73.Qd5+Ke274.Qxh5Qxg3+75.Ka4Black still has practical winning chances even though the
tablebases know that the position is drawn.70.a6?The race is lost but
White's king could have stopped Black's passed pawn with70.Kc2!Kc571.Kd3Kb572.Kxe3Kxa573.Kf4+-70...e271.a7e1Q72.a8QQb1+72...Qb1+73.Ka4Qa2+-+0–1
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.
Apart from his regular columns and video lectures in ChessBase Magazine there is a whole series of training DVDs by Karsten Müller, which are bestsellers in the ChessBase Shop.
1. Heine Nielsen annotates the brilliancy of his protégé: Carlsen-Li Chao
2. Play like the world champion: together with GM Williams find the winning moves in Carlsen-Nakamura – "Move by Move“!
3. “Duel of the giants on the Berlin wall”: enjoy Karsten Müller’s video analysis of Anand-Carlsen.
4. Win with “ugly” moves: Vachier Lagrave explains how he outplayed Anand with Black.
5. Wild English Opening! Experience the spectacular Mamedyarov-Ganguly with the analyses of the Indian GM.
6. Who dares, wins! Yu Yangyi presents his fighting game (Nimzo-Indian with 5.g3) against Wesley So.
7. Sicilian with 2.Be2!?: more than a surprise weapon? Opening article by IM Souleidis.
8. This is how to play against the Cambridge-Springs Variation: Tomashevsky annotates his game against Ipatov and allows you some insights into tomorrow’s theory.
9. Mate in 6! Solve Oliver Reeh’s favourite combination with a copy-book attack on the king in interactive video format.
10. Intuitive and uncompromising: Daniel King shows Mamedyarov's straightforward attack against Lenderman (video).
Karsten MüllerKarsten 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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