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.

Soviet Grandmaster, World Championship Candidate. He won the Soviet Championship twice: in 1955 he tied with Smyslov, then defeated him in the play-off. Again he won it in 1979 at the age of 54. The closest he came to the World Championship was in 1962 when he was equal second with Keres in the Candidates' tournament, half a point behind Petrosian. 

Despite being two pawns down, Black's single passed pawn and his actively placed Rook give him the advantage. Notice that the Black King is cut off from the field of action by the enemy Rook but all this is about to change by the advance of the d-pawn.