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 Endgame composer and Chemical engineer. Science fiction writer. Co-author with Kofman and Liburkin of the popular Russian text: The Soviet Chess Study.

Black has a large material advantage and a dangerous passed pawn. White's only hope of salvation is in the progress of his own pawns. So his first move, the advance of the threatened d-pawn, is not difficult to find. The interesting feature of this study is the underpromotions: two White pawn underpromotions to a Knight and the Black a-pawn underpromotion to a Rook.