Welcome to this active site. Each week I am going to present to you an 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.

World Championship Candidate. Born in Riga but eventually settled in Denmark. Founder of the Hypermodern movement in Chess. Probably the most brilliant theoretician of the last century. With the following game played in the 1923 Carlsbad tournament he won the 2nd brilliancy prize.

 

The whole game is worth looking up because it is one of Nimzowitch's best efforts. Early on he had given up his Queen for a Bishop and Rook so that he could invade the enemy position. Black was forced to give back more material and so we reach this position.

This site is designed to promote the enjoyment of chess endings through competition, and to encourage a growing appreciation of practical endings and composed studies. Although I would like to include more theory about endings, I am limited by the time factor. There is a large pool of books written in recent years by grandmasters and masters about endings, including books for beginners. This was not always so. My aim, therefore, is not to compete with these but to supplement them. I hope to motivate competitors and interested onlookers to use self-help, i.e. to solve the endings and to study books for themselves in order to increase their knowledge. I do not wish to duplicate information that is already available in book form. From time to time I will mention general endgame principles as they crop up in the ending of the week but I do not offer a complete coverage of endgame theory.

1. Cumulative 2002 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 6/1/2002 to 22/12/2002 with a recess in July. 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 2002. They will be directed at 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.