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.

American Grandmaster. World Championship Challenger. One of the great charismatic figures of the chess world. He had many tournament successes but his youthful dashing style did not suit the long grind involved in matches. This was evident in his flawed bid for the World Championship against Lasker in 1907 when he didn't win any games.

In 1909 Marshall was involved in another sensational match in his career which was against the young Cuban genius, Capablanca. Although Marshall was heavily beaten in this match there were signs towards the end that he was getting to grips with the style of play of his young opponent as he strung it out with a series of draws. Perhaps then it is not too surprising that in 1913, Marshall inflicted the following cruel defeat on the Cuban in front of his home crowd.

In the late middlegame Capablanca had the advantage but he missed a winning continuation. Worse was to follow as he now threw away the draw. He allowed Marshall to escape into a difficult ending which gave him opportunites because of his advanced passed f-pawn. In this critical position Capablanca has just pushed his pawn 1.d4-d5+?? This blunder allowed the King to advance and shepherd home the passed f-pawn.