Study Puzzle of the Day 21/2/2021
Some technical problems to bypass here. White to move and win (M. Liburkin, 1939) (First try to solve the study without moving the pieces!)
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Study Puzzle of the Day 19/2/2021
On the road to the safety of the h8-square black king will stop for a snack at f4. What can we do to disrupt that plan? White to move and win (O. Duras, 1923) (First try to solve the study without moving the pieces!)
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Study Puzzle of the Day 18/2/2021
At least the opponent’s moves will be easy to predict. White to move and win (Kling & Horwitz, 1851) (First try to solve the study without moving the pieces!)
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Study Puzzle of the Day 12/2/2021
Interesting pawn race study. White to move and win (T. Gorgiev, 1956) (First try to solve the study without moving the pieces!)
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Study Puzzle of the Day 24/1/2021
Complete disharmony all around. White to move and draw (L. Falk, 1990) (First try to solve the study without moving the pieces!)
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Study Puzzle of the Day 5/1/2021
Can you stop black king from reaching the safety of the upper right corner, all the while keeping the pawn alive? White to move and win (J. Vancura, 1922) (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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Study Puzzle of the Day 2/1/2021
Can you find the winning trick? White to move and win (D. Petrov, 1964) (First try to solve the study without moving the pieces!)
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Study Puzzle of the Day 23/12/2020
You have only one pawn, so make it count! White to move and win (M. Liburkin, 1940) (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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