Submitted by
benws on Mon Jan 18, 2010 6:07pm.
Here is another interesting game played by Capablanca. He sacrifices a queen in the middlegame, but it is not meant for mate or material. The queen is sacrificed as the most effective way to reach a favorable endgame. Quite a novel idea, is is not... Read more »
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Submitted by
benws on Sun Jan 3, 2010 8:25am.
We can learn so much from the games of Jose Raul Capablanca (November 19, 1888 – March 8, 1942). However, we tend to overlook the fact that he was a great expert in the endgame. After all, it was he who said "In order to improve your game, you m... Read more »
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Submitted by
NM GreenLaser on Sat Jan 2, 2010 2:51pm.
The following endgame analysis stems from a game between Andy Soltis and Joe Tamargo in the Marshall Chess Club Championship of 1976. Andrew Soltis was born May 28, 1947 in Hazelton, Pennsylvania. He became an international master in 1974 and a gr... Read more »
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Submitted by
GM vbhat on Mon Dec 28, 2009 2:21pm.
In my last tournament in Navalmoral, I finished with 7.0/9 and in clear 3rd place behind Fedorchuk (who beat me in a game I annotated here last I week: http://www.chess.com/article/view/building-a-fortress). I had 5.0/7 going into the last day, an... Read more »
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Submitted by
NM GreenLaser on Sun Dec 27, 2009 2:14pm.
Larry M. Evans was born March 23, 1932 in New York City. At the age of 15, he became the youngest champion the Marshall Chess Club had ever had. In 1949, he tied for first place with Arthur Bisguier in the US Junior Championship. He began playing ... Read more »
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Submitted by
GM vbhat on Mon Dec 21, 2009 10:07pm.
I recently completed a tournament in Navalmoral de la Mata (Spain) where I finished with 7.0/9. My only loss of the event was to the top seed, GM Sergey Fedorchuk, in the 3rd round (Fedorchuk coasted to first place with 7.5/9). The game featured a... Read more »
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Submitted by
chessbibliophile on Sun Sep 27, 2009 12:31am.
 I first saw an endgame study by Leonid Kubbel in a book on combinations by Irving Chernev during my student days.I still remember my sense of awe and wonder at the way in which the Black monarch was chased and how he was mated with a lone knight... Read more »
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Submitted by
OBIT on Sat Sep 5, 2009 9:52am.
In this article, we are going to look at positions where you are down to your last pawn, while your opponent still has a piece left. Facing a knight, bishop, rook, or even a queen, what are some of the positions where the lowly pawn can still lead... Read more »
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Submitted by
OBIT on Sat Aug 15, 2009 9:31am.
As all the chess.com members here surely know, any game that comes down to K+B vs K or K+N vs K is immediately declared "drawn due to insufficient material".  With just those three pieces left on the board, a mating position cannot be created e... Read more »
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Submitted by
spassky on Sun Aug 2, 2009 11:43pm.
We have all had games where we knew we were winning, but we couldn't seem to finish it off with a win. You play well enough to get to a position where you both know you are winning, but then he seems to play better or you play worse. You have... Read more »
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Submitted by
chessbibliophile on Thu Jul 30, 2009 5:51pm.
Van Perlo's Endgame Tactics
Third, Improved Edition
New In Chess.2008
Edition:Large Paperback
Pages:480
I began* this article as a book review.But thanks to the interest of the readers it has become a practice session on the endgame.So her... Read more »
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Submitted by
chessbibliophile on Wed Jul 29, 2009 9:15am.
Van Perlo's Endgame Tactics
Third, Improved Edition*
New In Chess.2008
Edition:Large Paperback
Pages:480
Winner of the ECF BOOK of the YEAR 2006 Award.
ChessCafe 2006 Book of the Year Award.
No, these awards really do not matter.So wh... Read more »
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Submitted by
NM GreenLaser on Sat Jul 11, 2009 1:42pm.
Alexei Shirov was born on July 4, 1972 in Riga, Latvia. He is known as an attacking player. Mikhail Tal said the young Shirov was not inferior to Tal in the calculation of complications. Shirov was the World Champion U-16 in 1988. In 1988, Shirov ... Read more »
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Submitted by
spassky on Tue Jul 7, 2009 11:14pm.
In this game, Black falters in the opening a little, but recovers in time to get to an endgame without too much damage. Just when it looks like we're in for one of those long rook endgames where both sides are trying to play offense and defense ... Read more »
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Submitted by
GeniusKJ on Sun Jun 28, 2009 2:00pm.
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Submitted by
turkey_12345act on Sun Jun 21, 2009 5:19pm.
As I was buzzing around the forums, spreading useless and, in some very rare cases, useful information, I noticed several members of the community expressing their belief that a King + Rook vs. King Endgame is a difficult checkmate. That really sh... Read more »
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Submitted by
WIM energia on Thu Jun 18, 2009 11:41pm.
When and when not to trade into the endgame? We ask this question many times during our chess games. Usually trading into the endgame means exchanging one’s major piece- Queen. The following characteristics are common causes for one side to trad... Read more »
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Submitted by
isaacg227 on Tue Apr 21, 2009 10:57pm.
This is an amazing position, where white's pawn beats black's rook. Read more »
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Submitted by
aristeidis9 on Mon Apr 20, 2009 5:00am.
Rubinstein again.Study starts from move 40
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Submitted by
Ripper89 on Sat Apr 18, 2009 1:54pm.
When one side has just king and the other has king and a pawn ,the side with the lone king can still pull out a draw.Here is the trick:
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Submitted by
GeniusKJ on Mon Apr 13, 2009 4:15pm.
Hello everyone! In this article I will tell you some interesting facts (you probably know some of them) and show endgames in which there are 3 knights and king verses a king.
Facts :
1) You can't checkmate a lone king using a king and bishop onl... Read more »
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Submitted by
aristeidis9 on Mon Apr 13, 2009 4:10am.
Some tactics about how the a (or h pawn) at the 7th (or 2nd) can proceed to queen.Some of them take place very often at the chessboard and it's very useful to know them..
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Submitted by
GeniusKJ on Sun Apr 12, 2009 2:49pm.
Hello again! Unlike my previous articles, this one shows an ending in which it is king, knight and bishop verses a lone king.
* This is very hard to perform and also difficult to learn. The one secret I know is that to checkmate the opponent usin... Read more »
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Submitted by
khpa21 on Sun Mar 22, 2009 1:20pm.
Many of you are probably familiar with the principle that, when a bishop is on the board in an endgame, you want to push your pawns on the opposite color of that bishop and keep your opponent's pawns on the color of that bishop. So, for instance, ... Read more »
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Submitted by
GeniusKJ on Tue Mar 17, 2009 3:18pm.
So, do you want to learn the endgame? Well I'll tell you about checkmating your opponent using your rook and king or queen and king. The most important thing is enclosing the opponent into i tiny box without getting a stalemate. To do this, you mu... Read more »
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