Welcome to this active site. Each week I am going to present to you an endgame position for you to solve or to workout the best continuation. Computer analysis will also be considered. Some of these positions will come from actual historical games. Others will be composed endgame studies, but all the solutions will be relevant to the practical game. The new position will occur each SUNDAY and I will always be pleased to receive POSITIVE feedback about the positions and the analysis and I will try to acknowledge these where relevant.

Soviet Endgame Composer. Showed great promise at an early age but his career was brought to a sad premature end with his death during the Second World War.

 

White faces a serious threat along the a1-h8 diagonal from the Queen-Bishop battery and also has to be aware of a back rank mating attack from the Queen. Fortunately with the help of his f-pawn promoted to a new Queen he finds a brilliant defence to bring about stalemate.