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.

Russian/Soviet Endgame Composer. He is regarded as one of the founders of the art of modern endgame study composition. His early career in composing started in 1895 but only lasted a couple of years and then his interest waned. Much of his earlier work was full of new ideas but lacked the polish that was to come later. In 1906 he made a triumphant return to chess with his brilliant analysis of the difficult ending of two Knights vs pawn. In 1910 he wrote an important article, published in the St Petersburg paper "Niva" in which he laid down the principles for the composing of studies. He has over 1000 studies to his credit. He wrote: A Selection of Chess Studies (1934).

 

This study shows the idea of perpetual attack. The continued attack on the Queen and King by the White pieces can lead to a repetition of the position. Thus it can be seen that a perpetual attack can lead to a special kind of positional draw.