This Week's ChessVideos Show: A Textbook Bishop vs. Knight Endgame?
Friday, March 5, 2010 at 10:53AM
Dennis Monokroussos in Bishop vs. Knight, ChessVideos Presentations, endgames

The worst bishop is better than the best knight, some wag from the old USSR used to say, and while it's an exaggeration it's also true that in a strong player's hands the bishop's long-range powers come into play more often than one might expect. That's just what happens in the recent GM game Gennadij Ginsburg-Pavel Eljanov, which I present here. The game started off with an early exchange-fest, reaching a bishop vs. knight ending on move 20. The position looks as equal as can be, but Eljanov, with the bishop, grinds his opponent down and wins in an instructive, seemingly textbook fashion.

GM technique at its finest? Watch and see! The show is free and available on-demand (for about the next month) or so, and should be watched very carefully. (You'll see why!)

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