Akiba Rubinstein, endgame virtuoso
The polish Grand Master Akiba Rubinstein was one of the so called "stronger player never to become World Champion" and without doubt, one of the best endgame players that have existed.
He could have played for the WCC in 2014 but WWar I stopped the negotiations with Lasker. Also his performance in Saint Petersburg 2014 tournament was not brilliant as expected. This tournament was two double round robins. The 1st one was a qualification phase where the 5 1st would qualify for the second round robin and the winner, if not himself, would held the right to challenge Lasker for the WCC title. Anyway Rubinstein performed weaker than expected and tied for 6/7 spots and the two players to accompany Lasker, Capablanca and Alekhine were Tarrasch and F.Marshall in a tournament that Lasker won so there was not challenger for a WCC match,
Rubinstein was also the author of one of the most brilliant combinations ever, defeating with black a strong polish master called G.Salwe. We are not posting it because this article is about endgame skills and also u can find it all over the web (wiki or google Rubinstein, Salwe chess and there will it be.
Let`s post 3 of his magnificent endgame exhibitions. Two of them will be of Saint Petersburg 2009, his win vs.WC Em.Lasker and another one vs. Mieses were the annotator was Lasker himself, revised 90 years later by the famous Mikhail Shereshevsky.
Let's start with the latter for sake of Lasker annotations:
Well, I don't know why but in this 2nd game when you paste the pgn the annotations don't get formated as a chess game and appears a chessboard with the initial position. Anyway you can find the game in many sites, is Rubinstein - Em.Lasker, Saint Petersburg 1909.
So I am not very optimistic about the outcome of the 3rd game but is Rubinstein - Capablanca, 1911 (San Sebastian), BTW, even being defeated in this game, a very young Capablanca managed to win the tournament 1/2 point ahead of Rubinstein.
It worked 
Well now to finish the Fischer game, as always. In the upcoming posts I thought that beside the Fischer game, we can include a chess composition or study, 
