Welcome to this active site. Each week I am going to present to you a endgame position for you to solve or to workout the best continuation. Computer analysis will also be considered. Some of these positions will come from actual historical games. Others will be composed endgame studies, but all the solutions will be relevant to the practical game. The new position will occur each SUNDAY and I will always be pleased to receive POSITIVE feedback about the positions and the analysis and I will try to acknowledge these where relevant.

 

English Endgame Composer. Chess writer and endgame columnist. He wrote fine endgame study books on some of the greatest composers: Kubbel, Mattison and the Platov brothers. He taught at King's Taunton in Somerset, England and in his composing he often collaborated with W.H.M. Lemmey who was a student at the school.

 

The placement of the enemy King often gives the game away when it comes to solving an endgame study. Here the King is a prisoner in the corner of the board surrounded by the White pieces and this must be a strong clue. There must be a mating attack somewhere but how does White first deal with the Queen?

A nice study exploring an area of theory, the BNvN pawnless ending of which little was known about until the onset of computer analysis and endgame databases.

1. Cumulative 2001 Prizes: 1st £100 or equivalent, 2nd £50, 3rd £30; 4th £20. (Total Prize Money=£200) Entries limited to 20 solvers. This event will run from 7/1/2001 to 30/12/2001. Present CUMULATIVE COMPETITION rules apply but note the prizes will go to those participants who climb the ladder the greatest number of times during the year. The relative position of the solver's name on the ladder will decide the allocation of prizes.

2. Endgame Solving Tournaments 2001. The nature of these events are changing. They will be directed at mainly new or intermediate solvers and will not be too difficult. No money prizes but a book prize for the highest placed newcomer. Events will take place at Easter, Summer and Christmas each consisting of 5 positions to solve. Present strict rules will apply; no computer analysis.