Dr. Karsten Müller was born November 23, 1970 in Hamburg, West Germany. He is a German chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 Grandmaster

International Grandmaster

The title Grandmaster is awarded to strong chess players by the world chess organization FIDE. Apart from World Champion, Grandmaster is the highest title a chess player can attain....

. He earned the Grandmaster title in 1998 and a PhD in mathematics in 2002 at the University of Hamburg. He placed third in the 1996 German championship and second in the 1997 German championship.

He is an authority on endgames. He is the author of Fundamental Chess Endings (Gambit Publications

Gambit Publications

Gambit Publications is a major publisher of chess books. The company's headquarters is in London. It has published more than 150 chess books.The company was founded by three chess players...

, 2001) and Secrets of Pawn Endings (Everyman Chess

Everyman Chess

Everyman Chess is a major publisher of books and CDs about chess. The company was formerly called Cadogan Chess. "Everyman" is a registered trademark of Random House and the company headquarters is in London. Former World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov is their chief advisor and John Emms is the...

, 2000), both with Frank Lamprecht

Frank Lamprecht

Frank Lamprecht is a German chess International Master and chess trainer. He is an author of Fundamental Chess Endings and Secrets of Pawn Endings, both with Karsten Müller.-External links:...

. He also wrote How to Play Chess Endgames, with Wolfgang Pajeken (Gambit, 2008) and Magic of Chess Tactics (Russell Enterprises 2003) with FIDE Master Claus Dieter Meyer. His column "Endgame Corner" has appeared at ChessCafe.com

ChessCafe.com

ChessCafe.com is a website that publishes endgame studies, book reviews and other articles related to chess on a weekly basis. It was founded in 1996 by Hanon Russell, and is well known as a repository of articles about chess and its history....

 since January 2001 and he has been a regular contributor to ChessBase

ChessBase

ChessBase GmbH is a German company that markets chess software, maintains a chess news site, and operates a server for online chess. Set up in 1998, it maintains and sells massive databases, containing most historic games, that permit analysis that had not been possible prior to computing...

 Magazine since 1997.

The seventh chapter of Tibor Karolyi

Tibor Karolyi

Tibor Károlyi is a Hungarian chess International Master, International Arbiter , coach, theoretician, and author. He was Hungarian Champion in 1984.In 1989 he started his coaching career...

's 2009 book Genius in the Background is devoted to him. His main interest apart from chess are football and mathematical games.

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