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.

Danish Grandmaster. World Championship Candidate. One of the most successful tournament players of the modern era. Winner of the Danish Championship 6 times. His play has been greatly influenced by the Latvian/Danish theoretician Nimzowitsch. Today he lives in Buenos Aires, with his Argentinian wife.

The connected passed pawns look menacing but White's pieces are more active and give him the opportunity to occupy the seventh rank. As Nimzowitsch taught a long time ago, a Rook on the 7th in the endgame can often be decisive. It can confine the enemy King and issue powerful attacking threats. Although Black gets a new Queen the White pieces combine beautifully to bring about the enemy downfall. The following main line are the moves played in the actual game.

Another way to win is to play: 1.Re7 Rxf4 2.Nxf7 Rxf7 3.Re6 Rb7 4.Rxg6+ Kh7 5.Rd6 c3 6.Rc6 d4 7.Be4+ Kg7 8.Rg6+ Kf7 9.Rxh6 Re7 10.Kf3 Nc4 11.Rh7+ Kf8 12.Rxe7Kxe7 13.Ke2 Nd6 14.Bc2 and the kingside pawns will take the day.

3... c2 4.Rxc2 Rxf4 5.Nxf7 Kxf7 6.Bxd5+ Ke7 7.Rc6 Rf6 8.Rxf6 Nxf6 9.Bb7 a5 10.f4 when the extra pawn in the Bishop vs Knight ending should win for White.

Nimzowitsch and Larsen never met. The great theortician died the same year as Larsen was born but he would have been proud of this ending.