Liquidating to pawn endings

Vassily Ivanchuk rushes as
ever from tournament to tournament, but at the moment he is somewhat out of
luck. In Sofia the Ukrainian was a tragic figure in several games. One such was
fought under the banner of “Liquidating to pawn endings”, which by the way is
also a subject discussed by Karsten Müller in

Chess Base Magazine 130 (which appears in the first half of June). In the
position in the diagram, Ivanchuk wanted to make the transition to just such an
ending with 44.Bxg5. Hamburg endgame expert Karsten Müller will explain to you
why that was not such a good idea…
Ivanchuk – Wang Yue