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.

  

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Not too difficult this time. The main line and sub-variations are easy to follow. An important feature in this study is the underpromotion of the passed pawn to a Rook to avoid the stalemate trap. Black is threatening to promote his g-pawn so White's first move is fairly obvious:

4...Bb8 5.Ra6 (if 5.e8Q Ba7+ 6.Kh2 g1Q+ 7.Kh3 Bg2+ 8.Kh4 Be3 9.Kh5 Qh2+ 10.Kg6 Qh6+ 11.Kf7 Bd5+ 12.Re6 Bxe6+=) 5...Be5 6.Ra4 (if 6.e8Q Bd4+ 7.Kh2 g1Q+ 8.Kh3 Kf2 9.Qf7+ Kxe2=) 6...Bd6 (or 6...Bc7) 7.Ra1+ Kxe2 8.e8Q+ wins.