This position by Kopaev is practical and instructive. If your goal is to be a strong tournament player, this is a great position to understand. You've seen the moves, but perhaps the reasons for them are not so obvious. Read on, and I will e...
Now the time is right for a good solution.If you didn't read the astonishing endgame please read it than come here.In every game there you can see lots of moves ea...
'The pawns are the soul of chess.'This is the bitter truth for all players in the world.A man who seeks mastery at chess must learn how to use these simple units of chess.I myself lost a lot...
The endgame is a really beautiful world and his problems even more beautiful than it i want to share a really good example white to move and draw.Actually if you are a chess life r...
Chess is a game that you love and hate at the same time, one of those things in life that nobody can explain. It is easier to achieve a winning game than to win it. One bad move nullifies forty good ones, and precision technique is of the ess...
I came across this endgame exercise, I don't know who maded it up but I think it's pretty cool and sweet. Underpromotion is defined as "Promoting a pawn when it reaches the eight rank to less than a Queen." This is a little used ...
An endgame of Rook and Knight vs Rook and 2 Pawns should be a draw in most cases. Here is a game by two of the world's leading chess players of the 19th century, and both players missed better moves that could have won or drawn the game....
The diagram below is a setting for an endgame composed by Armenian Grandmaster Genrikh Kasparyan (1910-1995). White to play and win. Though White is two pieces ahead, Black threatens 1...f3xg2 mate as well as queening his e-pawn. It appears that B...
This exercise will blow your mind (From the book "All About Chess" by three times US Open Champion Israel A. Horowitz). White is to play and win. This seems an impossible task, White is ahead two bishops for a pawn, but since both b...
Pal Benko is famous for his chess compositions. He is also a strong grandmaster. Here is one of his own games in which his endgame was voted as the best in the tournament. Benko has the more active Bishop against a cornered Knigh...
Here is an interesting endgame with Rook, Knight, and Pawn vs Rook and 2 Pawns. It was won by Yugoslav Grandmaster Boris Ivkov. the winner of the first World Junior Championship in 1951. He won the championship of Yugoslavia in 1958, 1...
Here is a classical endgame between Kasparov and Karpov. It's from the 6th game of the marathon world championship match in 1984-85 where 48 games were played before the match was called off. The 6th game was considered the most dr...
Mach in 2 moves &...
Here's an interesting read which isn't really actually my article. Reading it on www.chessbase.com, I was simply enthralled, and loved it. So, i'll just edit it a bit and let you all enjoy it too! All good things should be shared, shou...
Former world champion Anatoly Karpov, born in 1951, started playing chess at age 4, and joined the Zlatoust Pioneer's Palace around age 9. There were many endgames in his early games, and here is one example. Both sides missed chan...
In March-April 1843, Howard Staunton, the best player in England, decided to play Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint Amant, the best player in France. It was a casual match, held in London, of six games and the prize money was one guinea. ...
John Barry (1873-1940) was a Boston lawyer and a strong amateur who played at Cambridge Springs, Pennsylvania in 1904. He drew his games with Lasker, Marco, Showalter, Schlechter, and Mieses, He defeated Richard Teichmann. But hi...
Dear ladies and gents, Here is a typical rook-pawn ending which I want to share with you Anthony
In 1972, Robert Fischer and Boris Spassky played for the world chess championship. The 13th game featured a complicated endgame. On move 69, Spassky missed the drawing line and went on to lose the game, the match, and the world title.&...
Former world chess champion Mikhail Botvinnik was a master at the endgame. Here is an endgame where he had a king-side majority of pawns (4 pawns to 3 pawns) where he immobilized his opponent, then penetrated his King and Rook to...
Rook and two Pawns vs Rook and Pawn. White to play and win.
It is very difficult to win an endgame with Bishops of opposite colors, even if you have more pawns. In this endgame I had a Bishop and two Pawns against a lone Bishop and King, and could not find a win. I did have a chance to win, but...
Can White draw this game? It's Bishop plus Pawn vs Rook plus Pawn.
White to move and draw. The humans missed it in time pressure. Can you find the only drawing move?
