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Improve Your Chess: First Learn End! - Botvinnik-Alekhine 1938
Opening:
Player(s):
Botvinnik, Alekhine
Alekhine makes an inaccuracy in the opening and Botvinnik obtains the kind of position where only he has play. He trades off into a superior endgame with excellent winning chances. Alekhine continues to have little play and Botvinnik slowly and surely takes advantage of his plusses to build a winning position. Unlike some of the other endgames in this series where the winner was not much ahead going into the endgame, this one is a good example of "endgame technique" from a winning position.