Where to go?

by Karsten Müller
11/8/2022 – Rook endings often have drawish tendencies but pawn races are often very sharp. In the diagram position, we have both: a rook ending and a pawn race and the position is very sharp. Black is two pawns up but the far advanced white pawns are dangerous. White just played 53.Rd7+ - how should Black react?
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.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 d6 6.Bg5 e6 7.Qd3 Bd7 8.0-0-0 a6 9.f4 Be7 10.Nf3 Qc7 11.e5 dxe5 12.fxe5 Ng4 13.Bxe7 Nxe7 14.Ne4 0-0-0 15.h3 Nh6 16.Qb3 Bc6 17.Nd6+ Kb8 18.Bxa6 Nc8 19.Qb4 Nf5 20.Nxf5 exf5 21.Bd3 g6 22.Rhe1 Na7 23.Kb1 Rhe8 24.Qc3 Bxf3 25.Qxc7+ Kxc7 26.gxf3 Rd4 27.c3 Rf4 28.Re3 Re6 29.Bc2 Nc6 30.Rde1 Rh4 31.Bb3 Re7 32.Bd5 Rxh3 33.b4 g5 34.b5 Nd8 35.c4 Kb6 36.Kb2 Kc5 37.Kc3 Ne6 38.Bxe6 fxe6 39.a4 g4 40.a5 Rd7 41.fxg4 Rxe3+ 42.Rxe3 fxg4 43.Re4 Rg7 44.Rf4 Rg5 45.Rf8 Rxe5 46.Rc8+ Kd6 47.a6 bxa6 48.b6 Re3+ 49.Kb4 Re1 50.c5+ Kd5 51.Rd8+ Kc6 52.Rd6+ Kb7 53.Rd7+ Where to go? Rook endings often have drawish tendencies but pawn races are often very sharp. In the diagram position, we have both: a rook ending and a pawn race and the position is very sharp. Black is two pawns up but the far advanced white pawns are dangerous. White just played 53.Rd7+ - how should Black react?
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Prraneeth Vuppala2458Sadhwani,R2620½–½2022B62Julius Baer Challenge CCT 202210.6

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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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