The tricky knight

Many amateur players have enormous respect for the knight, to a great
extent as a result of painful experience. In an analysis of his Bundesliga
game against Wattenscheid at the weekend, GM Karsten Müller shows
that the knight can show off its tactical abilities not only in the
middlegame
but also in the endgame. In the position in the diagram, it was Black’s
move,
and it looks as though all he has to do to win the game is to advance his
queenside pawns. But, which pawn should he advance? What do you think?
55…b3 or 55…c3?
The solution is here,
but first ponder over it with a  larger version of the diagram.

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