Year: 2013
Genre: Chess
Developer: Chessbase
Publisher: ChessBase
System requirements: Pentium-Processor at 300 Mhz or higher, 64 MB RAM, Windows XP, Windows Vista, DVD drive, mouse, soundcard
Language: English only
Program module: ChessBase 9 Reader
Duration: 4 hours, 34 minutes.

13 part deals with the rook ending.
Author: Since 1988 grandmaster Dr. Karsten Mueller from Hamburg in favor of Hamburger Schachklub in the Bundesliga and in 1996 and 1997 he finished third in the German Championship. As a world-renowned expert he is the author of the endgame column in the Journal of the endgame ChessBase and author of Endgame Corner column on ChessCafe.com.

GM Karsten Müller - Endgames 13: Double Rook Endgames
Introduction
1st Chapter: Theoretical Positions
01: Relief through rook exchange
02: Rook exchange as a weapon for the attacker
03: Intermediate check weakens the opponent
04: Plus pawns protect the attacking king
05: The white king in the middle of nowhere
06: Karjakin's combative rooks
07: Double rooks increase the winning chances with four pawns versus three on one wing
2nd Chapter: Mate Attacks
01: Rooks on cloud nine
02: The white king in the cage
03: Fire on board
04: The role of the attacking king
05: Tomashevsky's tomahawk rooks
06: The neuralgic point f7
07: Caruana's king march
08: The opening of the 7th rank
09: Mate net with minimal means Part 1
10: Mate net with minimal means Part 2
11: Mate net with minimal means Part 3
12: The king himself tightens the net
13: The king in the trap
14: Karpov's classic versus Larsen
15: Rubinstein's classic versus Chigorin
3rd Chapter: The Right Exchange
01: Relief through rook exchange or counterattack?
02: Liquidating into the pawn endgame requires care
03: The defender exchanges pawns
04: How is the attacker to proceed? Part 1
05: How is the attacker to proceed? Part 2
06: Double rooks increase the winning chances
4th Chapter: Activity and the Art of Defence
01: Activity is the essential of double rook endgames
02: Attacks with both rooks should not be underestimated
03: Andersson's attack
04: With structural weaknesses one should not defend passively
05: Shirov's long king march
5th Chapter: Classics and the Art of Pawn Handling
01: The greed of the computer
02: The king blocks the passed pawn
03: The power of a far advanced passed pawn
04: The power of two connected passed pawns
05: Magnus' mighty rooks
06: Aronian's attacking king
07: Anand's passed d-pawn
08: Capablanca's master piece versus Kan
09: Capablanca's classic versus Janowski
10: Smyslov's spirited attack

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