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.

British Player of master strength. Although partially blind he enjoyed a successful career as an academic at Balliol College, Oxford. He learnt his chess as a schoolboy when he attended the Worcester College for the Blind. His best result was in the Hasting Reserves (29/30) when he shared 1st prize with Koltanowski.

Flohr was pressing hard for a win in this ending and overestimated his chances. His last move Kb5-a4 was a mistake and allowed the White Bishop into the game with devastating effect.

The game continued: 4.h3 Kb5 5.Bg6 Kc5 6.Rd2 Ba4 7.Re2 d5?? (Black missed the chance to play a Tylor like move 7...Bb3! which takes advantage of the pin on the c-pawn and draws: 8.e6.Ra2+ 9.Kb1 Rb2+ 10.Ka1 White has to repeat moves =) 8.cxd4+ Kb4 9.e6 c3 10.e7 a2 11.e8Q Bxe8 12.Rxe8 Kc4 13.Rd8 Rb1+ 14.Kxa2 Rg1 15.Bd3+ Kb4 16.Rb8+ Ka4 17.Be4 Re1 18.Re8 Kb4 19. f5 1-0;

1. Cumulative 2002 Prizes: 1st £100 or equivalent, 2nd £50, 3rd £30; 4th £20. (Total Prize Money=£200) Entries limited to 20 solvers. This event will run from 6/1/2002 to 22/12/2002 with a recess in July. Present CUMULATIVE COMPETITION rules apply but note the prizes will go to those participants who climb the ladder the greatest number of times during the year. The relative position of the solver's name on the ladder will decide the allocation of prizes.

2. Endgame Solving Tournaments 2002. They will be directed at new or intermediate solvers and will not be too difficult. No money prizes but a book prize for the highest placed newcomer. Events will take place at Easter, Summer and Christmas each consisting of 5 positions to solve. Present strict rules will apply; no computer analysis.