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. Endgame Composer and Analyst. An active player in the 1930's. He achieved his best results in 1936 when he came equal first in two important Soviet tournaments. That year he also decided to start composing endgame studies.

He contributed new ideas in positions which had a natural appearance and he was soon considered to be one of Russia's great composers.

Chekhover became an important member of a team of theoreticians headed by Yuri Averbakh who prepared a kind of encyclopaedia of endings. The second Russian edition was translated into English and known in the West as Comprehensive Chess Endings, published in five volumes by Pergamon Press in the 1980's. It is still regarded as one of the standard works on the endgame.

The Black c-pawn is threatening to promote. White has to quickly get his Knight to "c1" to blockade the passed pawn. He plays a deflection sacrifice in order to set up a defence to stop the c-pawn from queening. The latter part of the study becomes a "dance" between the Kings to see who can control the queening square. White in the end has a nice trick in which he can bring about stalemate in the corner of the board or force a draw by repetition.