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.

Grandmaster. World Championship Candidate. Born in Poland but he later settled in the USA. At the age of eight he was touring Europe and America giving simultaneous exhibitions against twenty or more players and hardly ever losing. In one such event held at the Illinios Athletic Club in Chicago a crowd of fifteen hundred people turned out to watch this boy who became a legend. The prodigy fulfilled his potential and became a world class player. In 1935 he played in a tournament at Margate and beat the former World Champion, Capablanca, to take 1st place. In the following year he played in the strong Nottingham tournament and came equal 3rd. Position 320 is taken from this tournament.

Although this ending may look complicated the winning process is simple enough. Black will advance his King towards the other Monarch so that a mating attack can be carried through with the Queen. But he has to take great care in the advance to avoid the many checking possibilities. Black will make progress in his plan because due to the extra pawn he can always threaten to exchange Queens and thus reach a won K & P ending. White is forced into a very passive position. The play is very instructive and it is one of his finest endings.