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Mueller on Endgames: Moscow mastery

2/5/2015 – An opponent is most dangerous when his back is to the wall, and this is especially true in chess. In the first position, 13-year-old Iranian prodigy shows his alertness as he brings home the point. The obvious move can be wrong, but would you have seen it? How about the adage that states a rook belongs behind the pawn? So true, yet here it takes on a rather spectacular form.

Mueller on Endgames: Lessons from Gibraltar

2/4/2015 – With so many grandmasters playing in Gibraltar, and then masters, you might expect endgame guru Karsten Mueller to choose some mindboggling sequence by a big name for his selection, but enlightenment can come from anywhere as he shows in his first example. See also how lack of endgame knowledge can lead you to fall for that 'last trap'. These and others await your pleasure.

Small army, big attack

2/3/2015 – 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.

The last trump

1/27/2015 – 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.

Karsten Mueller instructs: Wijk Endgames (3)

1/24/2015 – Renowned for his tactical prowess and creative middlegame play, Ding Liren has also been showing his chops in the endgame. Here are two endgames won in which he finds solutions that are far from obvious, including his very imaginative reversal against Wojtaszek. Radjabov also works a win in a drawish endgame with instructive technique. Lessons from the doctor.

Mueller and Lamprecht: Wijk endgames (2)

1/22/2015 – Karsten Mueller teamed up with his colleague Frank Lamprecht to analyze a couple of fascinating endgames for your pleasure and instruction. Both have collaborated on classic endgame works, notably Fundamental Chess Endings, a fantastic resource. In the following article, Lamprecht not only shows a fascinating rook endgame, but then compares it shifting one move to the left.

The second zwischenzug

1/20/2015 – 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.

Karsten Mueller instructs: Wijk Endgames (1)

1/17/2015 – Wijk aan Zee has reached the midway mark, and left a lasting impression with so much fighting chess and great games. Many have gone deep into endgames with mind-boggling situations that even the best had trouble handling. Resident endgame expert Karsten Mueller, author of numerous reference works takes a look at a few of the more fascinating ones.

The outside pawn race

1/13/2015 – 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. And don't miss the Endgame Magic Show, 4.00 p.m. Special guest: Mihail Marin.

The dangerous "Zwischenzug"

1/7/2015 – 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!

Best of 2014: Endgame wizardry

1/4/2015 – Asked to select a few of his favorite endgames from 2014, noted author and endgame expert, GM Karsten Mueller dug up five endgames, and commented "There were many fascinating endgames in 2014, so the following choice is not forced. Magnus Carlsen has such impressive technique that I mostly looked at his endgames, but I liked two others so much that I just had to include them."

Knight on rim is dim

12/30/2014 – 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!

Switchback

12/23/2014 – 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!

Monster knights and ghosts

12/16/2014 – 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! And don't miss the next endgame magic show on Wednesday!

The magic rook and its apprentice

12/9/2014 – 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!

Tricky knights

12/2/2014 – In the endgame knights are often surprisingly helpless when fighting against rooks. Unlike a bishop the rook can reach all squares of the board and unlike the knight the rook is fast. However, knights are tricky and sometimes they manage to get the better of the stronger piece. Particularly so when passed pawns spice up the position and tactics count.

The last stumbling stone

11/25/2014 – 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!

The bishop and its passed pawns

11/18/2014 – Every week ChessBase magazine author and renowned endgame expert Karsten Müller presents a remarkable or particularly instructive endgame in his blog. This week he chose the game Mamedyarov - Gelfand. A click on the diagram opens a larger board. Test your endgame skills, improve and have fun!

A knight imprisoned

11/11/2014 – Every week ChessBase magazine author and renowned endgame expert Karsten Müller presents a remarkable or particularly instructive endgame in his blog. This week he chose the game Cuenca Jimenez-Bluebaum. A click on the diagram opens a larger board. Test your endgame skills, improve and have fun!

Knight surprise

11/4/2014 – Endgames often appear simple and somewhat dull. After all, there are only a few pieces left and sacrifices and mating attacks seem only to occur in studies. However, that's no reason to go on autopilot. Endgames often are more difficult than one might believe on first sight. And endgame expert GM Karsten Müller knows that one should expect the unexpected.

An offside knight

10/28/2014 – 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!

A king with racing boots

10/21/2014 – How fast is the king? A simple if not a silly question. After all, it can only move one square at a time. And while usually content to be well protected from enemy pawns and pieces in the first part of the game, the king likes to show its strength in the endgame. And if it fights both on the queen- and the kingside it sometimes seems to have racing boots.

Isenegger Memorial Study Tourney (3)

10/19/2014 – The David vs. Goliath motif – pawns fight pieces – in chess studies was the speciality of the Swiss study composer Samuel Isenegger. It was also the theme of the commemorative composition tournament staged by the Dutch-Flamish endgame study society ARVES. In the final section of our report the event director Yochanan Afek shows us studied that received special commendations.

Hammer's Hammerblow

10/14/2014 – What is better, bishop or knight? Some people prefer bishops, but that is no consolation if they run into a knight fork. Maybe it's best not to have favorites but to use both pieces to your advantage. Endgame expert and enthusiast Karsten Müller has a nice example. Today, 16:00 server-time, playchess.com offers more of Müller's Endgame Magic.
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