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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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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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Here we have a portion of Fritz 1964. study. The ending is also simple, but worth knowing without need to calculate. ...
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Simple but beautiful study. Also, this is useful drawing method for practical players. ...
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White must not allow the knight in front of the pawn. If the knight reaches d8, the position will be drawn. ...
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De Feijter study from 1940. Again, White simply advances his pawn. He only must move his king to the right square at the critical moment. ...
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White pawn promotes with check which will secure a win. As we have seen, a knight can be used to skillfully maneuver, threaten with double attacks and stop the pawn. Thus, White must be careful with his king moves. ...
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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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Amusing and not too complicated study (Blatter, A. & Haefele, H. 1944.) with a little good-to-know trick.
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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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