Practical Endgames Articles * Chess Endgames Network

Fedorov, V. – Arkhipov, S.

May 3, 2020July 22, 2020 GM, FT Blazimir Kovacevic768

White to move. Take the pawn or keep the king away from our kingside? White: Fedorov, V. Black: Arkhipov, S. Year: 1980 Result: 1/2-1/2

Makarichev, S. – Averbakh, Y.

May 2, 2020July 22, 2020 GM, FT Blazimir Kovacevic577

It can be extremely difficult to win an opposite-colored bishops endgame, even with 2 extra pawns. Here is one aesthetic example from the past. Black to move. Event: URS-ch sf Lvov Year: 1973 White: Makarichev, Sergey Black: Averbakh, Yuri Result: 0-1

Kozul Z. – Zaja I.

May 1, 2020July 22, 2020 GM, FT Blazimir Kovacevic467

White dominates in this simple endgame position. Next plan is to pick up black’s last remaining pawn. But Black is to move. White: Kožul, Zdenko WhiteElo: 2590 Black: Žaja, Ivan BlackElo: 2440 Year: 1997 Result: 1/2-1/2

P. Svidler – V. Anand

February 8, 2020July 22, 2020 GM, FT Blazimir Kovacevic522

Here is one well known, older ending from a high class game where White missed a nice winning motif. Do you think you would find it? Event: Dos Hermanas White: Svidler, Peter WhiteElo: 2713 Black: Anand, Viswanathan BlackElo: 2781 Result: 1/2-1/2

Rapport – Jones

January 24, 2020July 28, 2020 GM, FT Ante Brkic808

At first glance I thought this is easily winning endgame. White has many ideas: Black king is not safe, White always has mating motifs. Probably the main idea is to sacrifice rook on f7 and White wins if after Rf7, Nf7 Kf7 he can play Kd5! with the winning pawn ending. Also black rook […]

R-305 (Vancura)

December 18, 2019July 20, 2020 GM Vlatko Kovacevic268

Let us now examine positions with the black king imprisoned in the corner g7. Pay attention to the word imprisoned since the threat a7 with the winning backblow of the rook, the black king must not leave the safety area restricted to squares f7-f6-h6-h7. At first sight one can conclude that Black is helpless […]

R-226A (Lucena position)

December 17, 2019August 15, 2020 GM Vlatko Kovacevic340

6.3. Rook and Pawn Versus Rook (Lucena Position) Lucena Position is one of key positions in Rook vs Pawn Endgames. In most cases these endgames are a draw, especially when the pawn is distant from the promotion square. When the pawn is relatively close, the crucial question is if the weaker side’s king will […]

RMP-228

November 18, 2019July 20, 2020 GM Vlatko Kovacevic276

Rook and Pawn versus Bishop White’s material advantage is so big that the win is only the matter of elementary technique. When, however, Black blocks the square in front of the passed pawn with both pieces, the way to win is extremely difficult, and sometimes even impossible. Relative positions of kings and pawns are […]

Karjakin – Sevian

November 8, 2019July 28, 2020 GM, FT Ante Brkic922

Famous Troitsky line says this is a draw. White has to stop the g-pawn on g6 and at that moment and of course with knight on g5, White is winning. In this particular position Black should decide which corner is the best for his king and Sevian made wrong decision moving the king toward […]

Zelcic, R – Martinovic, S

November 4, 2019November 4, 2019 GM, FT Blazimir Kovacevic819

During this year’s Croatian Individual Championship we noticed an interesting endgame position. Black is to move. Can you find a win? Event: Croatian Individual Championship White: Zelčić, Robert WhiteElo: 2520 Black: Martinović, Saša BlackElo: 2555 Result: 1/2-1/2

Cookie	Duration	Description
PHPSESSID		This cookie is native to PHP applications. The cookie is used to store and identify a users' unique session ID for the purpose of managing user session on the website. The cookie is a session cookies and is deleted when all the browser windows are closed.
pmpro_visit		The cookie is set by the Paid Membership Pro plugin. The cookie is used to manage user memberships.
viewed_cookie_policy	1 hour	The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. It does not store any personal data.

Cookie	Duration	Description
__gads	2 years	This cookie is set by Google and stored under the name dounleclick.com. This cookie is used to track how many times users see a particular advert which helps in measuring the success of the campaign and calculate the revenue generated by the campaign. These cookies can only be read from the domain that it is set on so it will not track any data while browsing through another sites.
_ga	2 years	This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, camapign data and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assigns a randoly generated number to identify unique visitors.
_gid	1 day	This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the wbsite is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages viisted in an anonymous form.
GPS	30 minutes	This cookie is set by Youtube and registers a unique ID for tracking users based on their geographical location

Cookie	Type	Duration	Description
_gat	0	1 minute	This cookies is installed by Google Universal Analytics to throttle the request rate to limit the colllection of data on high traffic sites.
YSC	1		This cookies is set by Youtube and is used to track the views of embedded videos.

Cookie	Type	Duration	Description
IDE	1	2 years	Used by Google DoubleClick and stores information about how the user uses the website and any other advertisement before visiting the website. This is used to present users with ads that are relevant to them according to the user profile.
test_cookie	0	15 minutes	This cookie is set by doubleclick.net. The purpose of the cookie is to determine if the users' browser supports cookies.
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE	1	5 months	This cookie is set by Youtube. Used to track the information of the embedded YouTube videos on a website.

Category: Practical Endgames

Fedorov, V. – Arkhipov, S.

Makarichev, S. – Averbakh, Y.

Kozul Z. – Zaja I.

P. Svidler – V. Anand

Rapport – Jones

R-305 (Vancura)

R-226A (Lucena position)

RMP-228

Karjakin – Sevian

Zelcic, R – Martinovic, S

R-305 (Vancura)

R-226A (Lucena position)

Karjakin – Sevian

R-323A (Black king on the longer side)

P-58

Study Puzzle of the Day 22/9/2019

B-858 (Kotov-Botvinnik)

RMP-6

Q-Basic7

Q-Basic6

Q-Basic5

RMP-566

Study Puzzle of the Day 24/10/2020

Study Puzzle of the Day 23/10/2020

Study Puzzle of the Day 22/10/2020

Study Puzzle of the Day 21/10/2020

Study Puzzle of the Day 20/10/2020

Gunst, 1926.

Study Puzzle of the Day 19/10/2020

Study Puzzle of the Day 18/10/2020

Chessendgames.net

SEARCH:

Subscribers