Comprehensive Chess Endings General Editor: YURI AVERBAKH Volume 3 Queen and Pawn Endings Queen against Rook Endings Queen against Minor Piece EndingsPERGAMON RUSSIAN CHESS SERIE! General Editor: Kenneth P. Neat Executive Editor: Catherine Shephard AVERBAKH. Y. Chess Endings: Essential Knowledge Comprehensive Chess Endings Volume 1: Bishop Endings. Knight Endings Volume 2: Bishop against Knight Endings, Rook against Minor Piece Endings Volume 3: Queen and Pawn Endings, Queen against Rook Endings, Queen against Minor Piece Endings BOTVINNIK, M. M Achieving the Aim Anatoly Karpov: His Road to the World Championship Hal! a Century of Chess Selected Games 1967-70 BRONSTEIN. D. & SMOLYAN, Y. Chess in the Eighties ESTRIN. Y. & PANOV. V. N. Comprehensive Chess Openings GELLER. E. P. ‘The Application of Chess Theory KARPOV, A Chess at the Top 1979-1984 KARPOV. A. & GIK. Y. Chess Kaleidoscope KARPOY. A. & ROSHAL. A. Anatoly Karpov: Chess is My Life KASPAROV, G. The Test of Time LIVSHITZ. A. 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First English edition 1986 Library of Congress (Revised for vol. 3) Shakhmatnye okonchanifi, Englise Comprehensive chess endings (Pergamon Russian chess series) ‘Translation of: Shakhmatnye okonchani® 2nd, updated ed Includes indexes. Contents: v. 1. Bishop endings!Y. Averbukh Knight ending, Averbakh & V. Cheknover v. 2, Bishop ¥. Knight endings. Rook ¥- Minor Piece endings. — v, 3, Queen and pawn endings Yuri Averbakh. Queen against rok endings! Viktor Henkin Queen against n ‘Yuri Averbakh, Vitaly Chekhover. ~ 1. Chess—End games. 1. Averbakh. (U, (Ori) GVIESI7.CO4 19K TLL SL loging in Publication Data or piece endings British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Comprehensive chess endings (Pergamon Russian chess series) Vol. 3 3, Chess—End games 1. Averbakh, UI. Henkun. Vikigr TL. Chekhover. Vitalit 794.024 GVLAS0.T ISBN d-oKai26004 This edition is a translation of the Russian book Shuklmamye Okonichunwya 1981, published by Fizkultura 1 Sport. Printed in Great Briain by A. Wheaion & Co. Lid., ExeterContents Preface Part I QUEEN AND PAWN ENDINGS 1. QUEEN AGAINST PAWNS, 1.1 Queen against pawn 1.2 Queen against two pawns 1.21 Connected pawns 1.22 Isolated pawns 1.23 Doubled pawns 1.3 Queen against three or more pawns 1.4 Queen and pawn(s) against pawns 2. QUEEN AGAINST QUEEN 2.1 Queen against queen (without pawns) 2.2 Queen and pawn against queen 2.21 Central pawn 2.22. Bishop’s pawn 2.23 Knight’s pawn 2.231 Pawn on the 7th rank 2.232, Pawn on the 6th rank 2.24 Rook’s pawn 2.3. Queen and pawns against queen 2.31 Doubled pawns 2.32 Isolated pawns 2.33 Connected pawns 2.34 More than two pawns 2.4 Queen and pawn against queen and pawn 2.41 The pawns are not passed 2.42 The pawns are passed 2.5 Queen and two pawns against queen and pawn 2.51 Endings without passed pawns 2.52. Endings with passed pawns 2.6 Endings with several pawns (material advantage) 2.61 Outside passed pawn 2.62 Passed pawn in the centre or on the K-side 2.63 Pawns on one wing 2.64 Both sides have passed pawns 26 26 29 30 43 50 50 69 74 90 90 91 92 94 95 95 96. 97 98 102 102 107 112 116Contents 2.7. Endings with several pawns (positional advantage) 2.71 Passed pawn 2.72 Superior piece placing Part If QueEN AGainst Rook ENDINGS, 3. QUEEN AGAINST ROOK 3.1 Queen against rook (without pawns) 3.2. Queen against rook and pawn 3.21 The rook supports the pawn from the side 3.22. The rook supports the pawn from behind 3.23. The king supports the pawn 3.231 Central pawn 3.232 Rook’s pawn 3.233. Knight's pawn 3.234 Bishop's pawn 3.235 Pawn on its initial square 3.3. Queen against rook and two pawns 3.31 Doubled pawns 3.32 Isolated pawns 3.33 Connected pawns 3.4 Queen and pawn against rook and pawn 3.41 Pawns on the same file 3.42 Pawns on adjacent files 3.43. The pawns are passed 3.5. Queen and pawn against rook and two pawns 3.51 Doubled pawns 3.52 Isolated pawns 3.53 Connected pawns 3.531 Pawns blockaded 3.532 Pawns not blockaded 3.6 Endings with several pawns 3.61 Fortress, siege and pawn storm 3.62 Counter-play with the rook and pawns 3.63 Rare finishes Part IIT QuEEN AGainst Minor Ptece ENDINGS 4. QUEEN AGAINST MINOR PIECE 4.1 Queen against knight 4.11 Queen against knight (with or without a pawn) 4.12 Queen against knight and pawns 4.13. Queen and pawn against knight and pawns vi 119 120 125 129 131 131 141 141 155 162 162 166 172 176 193 205 205 208 213 226 226 230 234 238 238 244 248 249 259 269 269 278 282 285 287 287 287 290 294Contents 4.14 Queen and pawns against knight and pawns 4.2, Queen against bishop 4.21 Queen against bishop (with or without a pawn) 4.22 Queen against bishop and pawns 4.23 Queen and pawn against bishop and pawns 4.24 Queen and pawns against bishop and pawns Index of players and analysts vii 297 298 298 302 303 304Preface This book is the third in the series Comprehensive Chess Endings, which as a whole encompasses the following types of endings: pawn, knight, bishop, bishop against knight, rook against minor piece, rook, queen, queen against rook, and queen against minor piece. The aim of this series is to give practical recommendations on the playing of the basic types of endings. For the moment a total of five volumes are planned, of which two have already been published. It will be apparent that the team of authors have restricted their work to endings in which, apart from the king, each side has not more than one piece. And now a few words about how this series came about... . In 1946, together with David Bronstein, I was plying ina USSR Championship Semi-final in Leningrad. On one of the few free evenings David came to my room to show me the position from his adjourned game with Mark Taimanov. Incidentally, in those distant times we were still young masters, and were merely dreaming about the chess heights. The position proved to be extraordinarily interesting, and I enthusiastically began analysing, it. We succeeded in finding some exceptional, genuinely study-like possibilities. Incidentally, this analysis is given in Volume 2 of the series. Somewhat later I showed our analysis to the well-known chess teacher Piotr Romanovsk: He advised me to analyse a whole series of similar positions, so as to reveal their characteristic features. This work interested and fascinated me, although it proved rather time-consuming. It was only a couple of years later, in the magazine Shakhmaty vy SSSR, that my first theoretical article on the endgame was published. My interest did not wane, and I began systematically analysing various endings. Several of these analyses were published. When the idea arose of creating a reference work, devoted to different types of endings, I managed to bring together a group of theorists, who like me were engaged in analysing the endgame, consisting of the masters Vitaly Chekhover, Nikolai Kopayev and Viktor Henkin, and also the great endgame expert Ilya Maizelis. And we enthusiastically set about creating this reference work. In the course of the work it became clear that the abundance of material would far exceed the limits of a single book, and as a result three volumes were published. In studying the endgame the first task is to compile a sufficient amount of material, to be able to refiect as well as possible the features of this or that type of ending. In doing this we made wide use of games by past and present masters, analysis by theorists, and studies by chess composers. In cases where the necessary examples could not be found, we had to create them ourselves. The compilation of material proceeded in two directions: in the field of endings with a small number of pawns (less than four) we endeavoured to collect the maximum number of examples, so as to present this ending as fully as possible; in all other endings we set ourselves a different task—to pick out the most typical positions, to demonstrate the basic methods of play. However, it must be emphasized that the accent in our work was not only on the compilation and checking of the numerous examples. The main thing was that we began a logical and systematic study of the endgame. In many cases the authors had to make a corsa ix