Endgame Puzzle: July 23, 2009

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Can you name this great endgame player?

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Hint: Cuban World Chess Champion from 1921-1927.  Known for his exceptional (and I do mean exceptional) endgame skill and speed of play.  He was concerned that the future of chess with opening theory would become stagnated (sound familiar?) and proposed a 10x10 board with two extra pieces per side.

Quote:  "A passed pawn increases in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes."

http://blog.chess.com/Politicalmusic/endgame-puzzle-july-23-2009

Older Daily Puzzles

JUNE

• Endgame Puzzle June 28, 2009
• Endgame Puzzle June 29, 2009
• Endgame Puzzle June 30, 2009

JULY

• Endgame Puzzle July 1, 2009
• Endgame Puzzle July 2, 2009
• Endgame Puzzle July 3, 2009 (Judit Polgar) Solved by Icee
  
• Endgame Puzzle July 7, 2009 (Pia Cramling) Solved by Scarblac
  
• Endgame Puzzle July 8, 2009 (Sergej Karjakin) Solved by Torkil
  
• Endgame Puzzle July 9, 2009 (Veselin Topalov) Solved by chesteroz
  
• Engame Puzzle July 10, 2009 (Vishy Anand) Solved by oinquarki
• Endgame Puzzle July 13, 2009 (Vassily Ivanchuk)
  
• Endgame Puzzle July 14, 2009 (Lev Aronian) 
• Endgame Puzzle July 15, 2009 (Vladimir Kramnik) Solved by GlennB
  
• Endgame Puzzle July 16, 2009 (Wang Yue) Solved by h777
  
• Endgame Puzzle July 17, 2009 (Leinier Dominguez) Solved by Drumdaddy
  
• Endgame Puzzle July 18, 2009 (Hikaru Nakamura) Solved by Avneet and Crazy_Attack
  
• Endgame Puzzle July 19, 2009 (Magnus Carlsen) Solved by Avneet
• Endgame Puzzle July 20, 2009 (Anish Giri) Solved by Rael
• Endgame Puzzle July 21, 2009 (Peter Leko) Solved by oinquarki, Feynman and Chess_Kabob
• Endgame Puzzle July 22, 2009 (Mikhail Tal) Solved by Rain X Dancer and Sam_Musel

thats a LOT of puzzles

That would be Jose Capablanca.

I thought I was getting a proper endgame puzzle.

capablanca