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.

 

World Champion 1963-69. Soviet Grandmaster. In the early 1950's, Petrosian emerged from the ranks of Soviet Masters to become a leading player and a Candidate for the World Championship. Towards the end of the decade he had two brilliant results in consecutive Soviet Championships; 2nd in 1958 and then 1st in 1959.

 

White has a winning positional advantage. He has the more active King and control of the important invasion squares at d5 and f5. But first he has to extricate his Knight. The main line is the actual moves played in the game.

1. Cumulative 2003 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 5/1/2003 to 22/12/2003 with a recess in July. Present 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.