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.

Czech Grandmaster. Theoretician. Represented his country in all the Olympiads from 1952-1966. A well known author and top theoretician of the opening and middlegame phases of the game. He was arrested and imprisoned for his political activities during the "Prague spring" of 1968. He was later allowed to leave for West Germany and he represented them in the 1976 Olympiad.

White controls more space in which he can carry out a winning manoeuvre. White's 1.a5+ forces Black into a passive position which makes the defence impossible. The White King and Knight dominate the position and the enemy forces soon have to give way.