Study Puzzle of the Day 12/1/2021
Entertaining study composed by the old master. White to move and win (A. Troitzky, 1908) (First try to solve the study without moving the pieces!)
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Study Puzzle of the Day 10/1/2021
One amusing 17th century study for the end of this week’s theme (elemental endgame knowledge). Hope you have been successful! White to move and win (A. Salvio, 1634) (First try to solve the study without moving the pieces!)
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Study Puzzle of the Day 4/1/2021
Let’s take a week to inspect our trivial endings knowledge. So, not all of the following seven puzzles will start that way, but you can expect that they will end in: 2 elemental bishop endings, 2 elemental knight endings, 2 elemental queen vs pawn endings and 1 (sort of) all-in-one elemental ending 🙂 White to […]
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Guy 1938.
The solution should be simple when we know the drawing setup for a knight. White to move and draw. A 1938. study by Richard Guy. White has achieved basic drawing position as in example N-269.
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Study Puzzle of the Day 17/11/2020
One to show at your next chess party 🙂 White to move and win (Kashdan & Horowitz, 1928) (First try to solve the study without moving the pieces!)
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Knight against Pawn, Cheron 1927.
A. Cheron’s study from 1927. contains some cooks. We will look at it anyway in order to repeat the drawing method. The drawing method and the knight’s barriers are already explained in examples N-261, N-268 and N-269. Black king must lose time by going around […]
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Blatter, A. & Haefele, H. 1944.
Amusing and not too complicated study (Blatter, A. & Haefele, H. 1944.) with a little good-to-know trick.
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Study Puzzle of the Day 6/11/2020
Too manny pawns to catch, aren’t there? White to move and draw (J. Hasek, 1928) (First try to solve the study without moving the pieces!)
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Selman, 1941.
Our theme of the month for November is Knight versus Pawn. These seemingly simple endings can hide amazing knight maneuvers. Although there are positions where the knight and king can checkmate the enemy king locked-in at the corner of the board, usually a knight has to stop the pawn and save the draw. The […]
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Study Puzzle of the Day 31/08/2020
You can solve this one task at a time. White to move and draw (T. Gorgiev, 1959) (First try to solve the study without moving the pieces!)
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