Submitted by
JCoombs1972 on Wed Aug 13, 2008 9:35pm.
Ok all you endgame buffs, lets see what you make of this endgame situation.
In this endgame we shall se how one Grandmaster Nikolaevsky gains a draw against Grandmaster Taimanov in the USSR championship in Tbilisi in 1966.
So for all of those... Read more »
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polga on Mon Aug 4, 2008 7:19am.
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bluelion on Thu Jul 31, 2008 11:42am.
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Submitted by
sasha2 on Tue Jul 29, 2008 8:05am.
You are down significant material and you have check mate threat on you... However you you can checkmate him in 5 moves. Read more »
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Submitted by
JCoombs1972 on Thu Jul 17, 2008 9:26pm.
This puzzle should get you endgame buffs riled up for some more workouts on your endgame training, The title is triangulation which is a good weapon to use in the endgame to throw the turn to your opponent so you can make some headway into his/ he... Read more »
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Submitted by
davidetal on Thu Jul 17, 2008 1:31am.
I thought a King and pawn would win against a King, but I couldnt find a way in this game. Did I do something wrong or, as a matter of principle, can a King successfully fend off a King and pawn? Any help gratefully recieved, thanks!
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Submitted by
Bonsai on Tue Jul 15, 2008 11:50am.
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Submitted by
JCoombs1972 on Sun Jun 29, 2008 1:01pm.
(125) "King and Pawn v. King" "The ending of King and pawn v. king is not only a common place in endgames but a basic one at that. Any game in which one side is a pawn ahaead can, in theory, be simplified by exchanges to this three ... Read more »
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Submitted by
karibola on Sat Jun 28, 2008 6:07pm.
I'm not that particularly good at forcing the draw. This puzzle frustrated me to no extent. Good luck to you! See the move list that accounts for alternate play by black. Read more »
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Submitted by
redblack_redemption on Sun Jun 15, 2008 1:06pm.
White to play and win, and the rook may only move once. Read more »
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Submitted by
NM GreenLaser on Sat May 31, 2008 11:47am.
Before many of today's chess publishers were around, bookstores carried Dover paperbacks. One of those I bought is Rubinstein's Chess Masterpieces 100 Selected Games. The book originally came out in 1941. Dover reprinted it in 1960 at a pr... Read more »
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NM GreenLaser on Fri May 30, 2008 10:42am.
Before many of today's chess publishers were around, bookstores carried Dover paperbacks. One of those I bought is Rubinstein's Chess Masterpieces 100 Selected Games. The book originally came out in 1941. Dover reprinted it in 1960 at a pr... Read more »
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Submitted by
NM GreenLaser on Sat May 24, 2008 5:22pm.
One of the many endgame positions that must be learned is the queen against a rook pawn on the 7th rank. Knowing specific endings helps players to plan in advance. Players of all ratings can learn simple endings, yet even grandmasters misplay them... Read more »
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Submitted by
redandblack on Fri May 2, 2008 7:30pm.
While looking through the "Endgame Articles" section, I noticed that there were no articles on the topic of fortresses. As I a fan of using fortresses, and they are relatively unheard of, I decided to write an article explaining them. A... Read more »
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Submitted by
Gonnosuke on Fri May 2, 2008 4:09pm.
I came across this wonderful thinking exercise over at Dennis Monokroussos' blog, The Chess Mind and have reproduced it here with permission. It's not your typical puzzle, and by that I mean it's not a position in which there... Read more »
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Submitted by
benws on Fri May 2, 2008 1:40pm.
Hello everyone. I just got back from my one-week trip to the Florida Keys, which explains my long absence. I hope nobody got too worried... NOTE: ANNOTATIONS AND TITLE BY IRVING CHERNEV. Read more »
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NM GreenLaser on Fri Apr 25, 2008 5:06pm.
Chess is learned with a variety of approaches. One of the variables is time. Over the board games with various time limits is one approach. Another is correspondence or postal chess which requires patience,fosters opening study, and allows suffici... Read more »
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Submitted by
peterlim80 on Fri Apr 4, 2008 4:52am.
In this puzzle, white would not get a full point by playing 1.Ke3 because Black would play 1... Kd5 which protects the e4 pawn. If in this position, and it is Black's turn to move, then Black would lose the game, because he is unable to protec... Read more »
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Submitted by
vcds on Thu Apr 3, 2008 2:21am.
shoot it Read more »
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Submitted by
benws on Sun Mar 30, 2008 9:45am.
This delightful game is instructive in many ways. It includes a knight sacrifice to win a pawn, a quick transition to a rook endgame, and the win in combinative style. Read more »
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Submitted by
Chinunt on Sat Mar 15, 2008 5:14pm.
An interesting technique: Notice that the enemy MUST be on the 6th or 7th rank. Read more »
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Submitted by
TheDoctor on Sat Mar 15, 2008 1:39am.
This position might look like a composed study but it actually occurred in a game. White's position appears to be utterly hopeless. He cannot catch black's h-pawn and his own pawn is easily caught by black's king. So White resigned. Im... Read more »
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Submitted by
TheDoctor on Mon Mar 10, 2008 1:56pm.
Same position as in my last article (See "Hello Lolli") but this time it is Black to move. Even so, White still wins by force. Read more »
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