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.

Italian Master. Played in a number of important international tournaments in the 20s and 30s. He founded and directed the Italian Chess Federation. National champion in 1923 and 1931. His best result was probably at Baden-Baden in 1925 when he came ahead of Tarrasch, Colle, Mieses and Sir George Thomas.

The Baden Baden tournamemt of 1925 is important historically because it caught the early excitement of the Hypermodern movement, which was to have such a profound influence on the development of the game in the 1920s. Rossselli who had been invited because he was the Italian champion got off to a terrible start losing nearly every game but in the second half of the tournament his form was transformed. Here his change of fortune is evident as he pulls off a neat combination against a world class opponent and the organiser of the tournament.

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.