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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.

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!

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!

Recommended: ChessBase Magazine #163

12/29/2014 – In his review of ChessBase Magazine 163 Prof. Nagesh Havanur draws attention to a critical Najdorf encounter between the 2800+ star Fabiano Caruana and Israeli GM Boris Gelfand, who was playing this opening before Fabiano was born. The review also provides and overview of the contents of CBM 163. You can check out if there are anything that you play or are interested to learn.

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!

CBM #162 – keeping up the high standard

10/28/2014 – "Jubilant Chinese players grace the cover of the latest issue if ChessBase Magazine," writes Sean Marsh and finds that the Chess Olympiad receives excellent coverage in this edition, with a plethora of annotated games and video presentations. He advocates reading GM Rainer Knaak's editorial piece on possible reasons why top seed Russia fails to win Olympiads. Marsh Towers review.

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.

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.

Aronian's Arrow

10/7/2014 – Sometimes being a pawn or even two pawns up is not enough to win the game. Especially in endings with opposite colored bishops - if only bishops are left. But things change if other pieces come into play because the bishop is suddenly not the only one attacking. But you have to be creative to exploit this advantage. Levon Aronian certainly is.

Now released: ChessBase Magazine 162

10/1/2014 – The Chess Olympiad in Tromsø is at the center of this issue, with annotations by many of the participating players, Daniel King's "Game of the Day" videos, video analysis by Rustam Kasimdzhanov and several hours of ChessBase TV videos with outstanding players and trainers. Saint Louis and Biel are also there, as are eleven opening surveys. Can you afford to miss it?

ChessBase Magazine 161 – 'Uneasy lies the head...

9/30/2014 – ...that wears the crown. After the runaway success early this year Magnus Carlsen is slowing down a bit.' This issue of ChessBase Magazine deals with the Norway Chess, the Poikovsky Karpov and the Capablanca Memorial tournaments. But there is also a wealth of opening training, including some surprise lines, to explore. Review by Prof Nagesh Havanur.

ChessBase Magazine 161 – 'highly recommended'

8/4/2014 – Sergey Karjakin is the cover star of the latest CBM, due to his extremely impressive victory at the Norway Chess tournament, which receives comprehensive coverage: in addition to most of the games featuring annotations, there is an opening survey based on the tournament from Mihail Marin and a series of video presentations by Danny King. CBM 161 review at Marsh Towers.

NEW: ChessBase Magazine #160

6/10/2014 – Reports on the Candidates, the Gashimov Memorial, the European Championship, and more. Caruana and Radjabov analyse their wins against Carlsen, while Anand, Motylev and other top players also annotate important games. GM Dorian Rogozenco starts his new series "Classic". CBM 160 includes 13 opening articles. One ("Don't fear the Hedgehog") is now available for free!

Recommended: ChessBase Magazine #159

4/23/2014 – "I was delighted to see Jan Timman on the cover of this issue," writes Nagesh Havanur, who was not only pleased with the tournament reports – Wijk aan Zee and Zurich – but also with the 13 opening, and especially with Martin Breutigam’s King’s Gambit treatment, which Prof. Havanur calls "the icing on the cake." Even if you have other preferences there is bound to be something for you.

ChessBase Magazine #159 – with free download

4/10/2014 – "The latest issue of ChessBase Magazine offers the usual blend of top tournament coverage, instructional material and opening surveys. Danny King presents excellent video coverage from Zurich and Wijk aan Zee, and his analysis of the key games is typically insightful." You can download the free article by Michal Krasenkow on the Modern Benoni with 7.Bd3 Bg7 8.h3. Review at Marsh Towers.
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