![]() The periodic show always has a new guest, and covers interesting endgames analyzed from their games. But what if someone who is over 2700, among the top ten players in the world, and possible future World Champion also has learned from GM Müller? Ever see his show, " Endgame magic"? However, you don't have to take my word for it i'm just a patzer. ![]() To test myself, to see if I could indeed win it, I played it against an engine, with just five minutes on my clock! Success! So he is clearly a great teacher. #The magic of chess tactics how toThanks to one of his DVDs, I learned how to give checkmate with bishop and knight. He broke it down nicely, and his explanations were quite clear. His DVDs for ChessBase alone number fourteen and counting 14!! Now, I cannot mention all the columns, books, and videos GM Müller has authored in the past, simply because they are too many. Mea culpa!Īnother of Müller books is on Bobby Fischer, the greatest champion of all! Müller has written lot of books on endgames like: Fundamental Chess endings, that I bought, although I must admit I didn't read it all. He became GM in 1998, at just 28 years old! Mentally one wrongly associates wisdom, especially the deep knowledge Müller has for the endgames, with old age. I didn't know GM Müller was born in 1970, making him younger than me. But this game was played in the year 2000, and Black is rated around 2300+! In modern times, we ascribed the result of such games to the low quality of his opponents. This was typical in Morphy's games, his opponents would leave the king in the center, and he would sacrifice, and win brilliantly. How to present someone who had such a rich chess life? Well, I let their games speak for them! I found the following game interesting, not because of the sacrifice at move 16, but because it shows us how to exploit and win when the enemy king is left in the center for too long! FM Meyer is also a chess journalist, chess translator, and a passionate chess analyst in that time before chess engines, when one had to really use the brain instead of spitting out: "the engine says 0.9 advantage for White!" ![]() Of course he isn't only a player: chess as sport is such a complex and varied human activity. Meyer Claus Dieter is a FM with an amazingly long career, especially in what is considered one of the strongest world tournaments, the Bundesliga. Our two amazing coaches speak of "transformation" - a rather esoteric term, which I found is quite appropriate.īefore reviewing the DVD let me introduce these two remarkable chess players, who are fundamental for learning tactics in a way we will be able to use them in our games. A player who is rated 1100, maybe up to 1500, could find this some positions too difficult, or beyond his/her understanding, because they show some examples in which one must go beyond the mere material aspect, and learn how to win the game from a small advantage which maybe is not so easy for the chess knowledge of the average amateur. But yes, I do have a reservation to share: this material is not right for every player. As you can imagine, these two high level coaches selected material which will make every player grow. Why did I buy this DVD? After all do I really need tactics? In the last years, I've done, on different commercial sites, and some apps, at least 10-15,000 tactics a year.Īs chess player I often follow my feelings, and I felt that GM Karsten Müller, and FM Meyer definitely know their jobs, they have huge credentials, and they know the subject quite well.īut is the subject really about forks, and skewers? First thing in the morning was to renew my subscription to Chessbase Magazine and Chessbase extra, and that gave me 40 euro voucher to spend!!Īfter long deliberations - half day going back and forth on different products - I bought the DVD that's the subject of this review, and of course the DVD on the best player of all times: Fischer.
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