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.

Canadian International Grandmaster. He first came to the attention of the Chess World at the 1939 Olympiad when still as a teenager. He made the highest percentage score at board two (+12=3-1). His play at this event made a deep impression on Alekhine. In the next forty years he played for his national team many times. He won the Canadian Championship on eight occasions. In 1953 he won the British Championship and came equal first at Hastings.

  

Although White is a pawn up his King is caught in a precarious position in the centre of the board. White is forced to lose the exchange in order to avoid being mated. The basic ending is easily lost for White after the fall of the f-pawn.

2...Kh6? 3.Nf5+ Kg6 4.Rd6+ Bxd6 5.Nxd6 Rxb6 6.Nxc4 and White has drawing chances;

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