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.

Leading Soviet endgame composer. Neurologist at Tbilisi. Author of 'The Study Through the Eyes of Grandmasters' (1982) and many other books on studies.

 

White has two powerful passed pawns which makes up for his material deficiency but his King is exposed. White first has to defend against the Queen attack upon the Bishop at h1 and also the discovered check along the back rank. White meets the threats with the sacrifice of the Bishop and then the spectacular sacrifice of the Rook.

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