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.

 

International Grandmaster. Shared the Austrian championship at the age of 16 and then in 1932 succeeded in winning a match against Spielmann. After the annexation of Austria, he found himself playing for Germany. He won both the 1938 and 1939 German championships. The outbreak of the Second World War meant the end of his European chess career. After the 1939 Olympiad, like many other players he found himself stranded in Buenos Aries; so he decided to settle in South America and had reasonable success there.

Bobby Fischer was badly off form in this tournament and recorded one of his worse results. In this game he sacrificed his Bishop to gain what he thought was a powerful passed pawn but he overlooked a diabolical Knight move.

1. Cumulative 2003 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 5/1/2003 to 22/12/2003 with a recess in July. Present 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.