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.

British Endgame Composer. Former British Chess Magazine Endgame studies' editor. By profession he was a metallurgist. He composed nearly a hundred studies. 

White's winning chance relies on the advanced f-pawn so the first move is easy to find. The Rook goes to the 7th rank to lock the enemy King to the back rank and to give support to the advance of the pawn.

White starts a repetitive manoeuvre in order to force the Black pawns to advance. The pawns will fall one by one and then Black will run out of moves and fall foul of the Rook skewer on the back rank.

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.