Study Puzzle of the Day 26/12/2020
Piece of cake … so that you can save your energy for tomorrow’s heavy one 🙂 White to move and draw (F. Richter, 1952) (First try to solve the study without moving the pieces!)
Continue ReadingPiece of cake … so that you can save your energy for tomorrow’s heavy one 🙂 White to move and draw (F. Richter, 1952) (First try to solve the study without moving the pieces!)
Continue ReadingIn the endgames with one pawn on each side, White usually wins, especially when Black does not have a strong, advanced passed pawn. In positions without passed pawns, the victory is mostly a matter of technique, and is achieved by gradually isolating the opposing king from his pawns. We will get to know the […]
Continue ReadingIn exceptional situations, with a far advanced passed pawn and an unfavorable position of white pieces, Black can be closer to victory. In the next position (Lommer 1933), White miraculously saves a draw.
Continue ReadingIn the endings with one pawn each, White usually wins, especially when Black does not have a strong, far advanced passed pawn. In positions without passed pawns, the victory is mostly a matter of technique, and is achieved by gradually isolating the opposing king from the pawns. We will get to know the winning […]
Continue ReadingWhen, in a similar position, the black pawn is in the starting position, it is crucial whether the king and the bishop cover the surrounding squares in the right way. The next position, which emerged in the game Bolbochan-Maderna, Mar del Plata in 1949, has two significant shortcomings compared to example 391.
Continue ReadingWhen, in a similar position, a black pawn is fixed on a square of bishop’s color, White usually wins by careful transformation into a position with close pawns. We will get to know all the complexity of the winning strategy on the example of the ending of the game Korchnoi-Speelman, Brussels 1985.
Continue ReadingWe will consider a few more educational positions with pawns on adjacent files separated by more than one rank. When Black has an ideal defensive position with a pawn on the square of the opposite color of the bishop, White cannot achieve anything even when his pawn is two ranks away from the opponent’s, […]
Continue ReadingIn a similar position with the black g-pawn, the situation seems critical, but a little surprise awaits us. The next position with reversed colors arose in the game Barcza-Donner, Havana 1967.
Continue ReadingSince the attack from the other flank must not be allowed by White, it is easy to conclude that Black to move draws.
Continue ReadingCertain problems arise only when the black pawn is in the starting position because by pushing the king to the edge of the board, mating motifs appear. Despite that, Black most often draws, except when there is an edge pawn! We will first look at Y. Averbakh’s 1981. study.
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