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 Master. Belgium/American Allrounder. His playing career for Belgium straddled the two World Wars. He became his country's strongest player after the tragic early death of Edgar Colle who was also a close friend. His other great gifts as chess writer (19000 columns for the San Francisco Chronicle !!), showman and chess promoter came to the fore after he had settled in America. During his multi-faceted career he composed several chess studies of which the following is probably the most impressive.

A difficult study to solve. It is not obvious how White is going to win. Material is about level. Can he create a passed pawn which can act as a decoy ? Capturing the Knight on "e1" or the Bishop at "b4"doesn't seem to work. Black is threatening to take the f-pawn and thus obtain two passed pawns which will give drawing chances. The situation of the White Knight is not very secure. Perhaps White doesn't need to worry about his Knight and can capture the offending g-pawn thus creating a powerful passed pawn.