Back to my Capablanca endgame series... Anyway, this game is notable for one thing other than Capablanca's play. When he was asked for the opinion of the position after his opponents' 18th move, he instantly replied, "Black is lost; White's king ...
Erwin l'Ami was born April 5, 1985 and has become a leading Dutch grandmaster. In addition to having good tournament results, he has assisted Cheparinov and Topalov. In the following game, he plays the white pieces. His opponent is Nikolai Ninov, ...
Often in life or in chess we can understand things better through the illumination of the unvisible facts in the background. So please look at the folllowing endgame position: When I showed this position in my chess class and asked:" Whos...
Here is another interesting game played by Capablanca. He sacrifices a queen in the middlegame, but it is not meant for mate or material. The queen is sacrificed as the most effective way to reach a favorable endgame. Quite a novel idea, is is not...
We can learn so much from the games of Jose Raul Capablanca (November 19, 1888 – March 8, 1942). However, we tend to overlook the fact that he was a great expert in the endgame. After all, it was he who said "In order to improve your game, you mus...
The following endgame analysis stems from a game between Andy Soltis and Joe Tamargo in the Marshall Chess Club Championship of 1976. Andrew Soltis was born May 28, 1947 in Hazelton, Pennsylvania. He became an international master in 1974 and a gr...
In my last tournament in Navalmoral, I finished with 7.0/9 and in clear 3rd place behind Fedorchuk (who beat me in a game I annotated here last I week: http://www.chess.com/article/view/building-a-fortress). I had 5.0/7 going into the last day, an...
Larry M. Evans was born March 23, 1932 in New York City. At the age of 15, he became the youngest champion the Marshall Chess Club had ever had. In 1949, he tied for first place with Arthur Bisguier in the US Junior Championship. He began playing ...
I recently completed a tournament in Navalmoral de la Mata (Spain) where I finished with 7.0/9. My only loss of the event was to the top seed, GM Sergey Fedorchuk, in the 3rd round (Fedorchuk coasted to first place with 7.5/9). The game featured a...
In this article, we are going to look at positions where you are down to your last pawn, while your opponent still has a piece left. Facing a knight, bishop, rook, or even a queen, what are some of the positions where the lowly pawn can still lead...
As all the chess.com members here surely know, any game that comes down to K+B vs K or K+N vs K is immediately declared "drawn due to insufficient material". With just those three pieces left on the board, a mating position cannot be created eve...
We have all had games where we knew we were winning, but we couldn't seem to finish it off with a win. You play well enough to get to a position where you both know you are winning, but then he seems to play better or you play worse. You have p...
Alexei Shirov was born on July 4, 1972 in Riga, Latvia. He is known as an attacking player. Mikhail Tal said the young Shirov was not inferior to Tal in the calculation of complications. Shirov was the World Champion U-16 in 1988. In 1988, Shirov ...
In this game, Black falters in the opening a little, but recovers in time to get to an endgame without too much damage. Just when it looks like we're in for one of those long rook endgames where both sides are trying to play offense and defense a...
As I was buzzing around the forums, spreading useless and, in some very rare cases, useful information, I noticed several members of the community expressing their belief that a King + Rook vs. King Endgame is a difficult checkmate. That really sh...
When and when not to trade into the endgame? We ask this question many times during our chess games. Usually trading into the endgame means exchanging one’s major piece- Queen. The following characteristics are common causes for one side to trade ...
This is an amazing position, where white's pawn beats black's rook.
Jeremy Silman in his book 'Silman's Complete Endgame Course' makes the statement that this Endgame isn't worth learning as it will only come up at most about 3 times in one's lifetime or possibly not ever at all. But it shouldn't take long for m...
Rubinstein again.Study starts from move 40
When one side has just king and the other has king and a pawn ,the side with the lone king can still pull out a draw.Here is the trick: From here on if you make a bad move you're dead.Here is what you should do:
Some tactics about how the a (or h pawn) at the 7th (or 2nd) can proceed to queen.Some of them take place very often at the chessboard and it's very useful to know them.. ...
CheckMate in 7 move whit 3 knight in a good position but this position comes form one of the worse position that took 49 move to force black into checkmate. ...
Many of you are probably familiar with the principle that, when a bishop is on the board in an endgame, you want to push your pawns on the opposite color of that bishop and keep your opponent's pawns on the color of that bishop. So, for instance, ...
Their has been many battles between the Knight and the Bishop. In positions, each one has its own benifits.For example, kNIGHT does better inclosed positions with many pawns. The Bishop does better with fewer pawns and open diago nals. I will ...
