Politicalmusic's Daily Endgame Puzzle: August 7, 2009

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Endgame Puzzle: August 7, 2009

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Can you name this great endgame player?

Click the picture for the puzzle

(photo courtesy of Fred Lucas)

Hint: Recent winner of Corus C.  Filipino GM and chess prodigy.  

Quote: "The educational aspect of chess attracts me. It is a learning experience: memory, pattern recognition, decision making and reinforcement."

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
• Endgame Puzzle July 23, 2009 (Jose Capablanca) Solved by Avnett
• Endgame Puzzle July 24, 2009 (Paul Morphy) Solved by Gramps33
• Engame Puzzle July 25, 2009 (Alexander Alekhine) Solved by Wicksta85
• Endgame Puzzle July 26, 2009 (Boris Spassky) Solved by Tajomoen
• Endgame Puzzle July 27, 2009 (Bobby Fischer) Solved by Tajomoen
• Endgame Puzzle July 28, 2009 (Anatoly Karpov) Solved by dc1985
• Endgame Puzzle July 29, 2009 (Garry Kasparov) Solved by rainxdancer
• Endgame Puzzle July 30, 2009 (Dmitry Jakovenko) Solved by Mikyz
• Endgame Puzzle July 31, 2009 (Teimour Radjabov) Solved by h777

August

• Endgame Puzzle August 1, 2009 (Alexander Morozevich) Solved by h777
• Endgame Puzzle August 4, 2009 (Jonathan Rowson) Solved by therobz
• Endgame Puzzle August 5, 2009 (Jan Smeets) Solved by h777
• Endgame Puzzle August 6, 2009 (Fabiano Curuana) Solved by h777

Edit: Instead of deleting my comment, I guess I'll post something...

Having chess pieces that large would be great, escpecially if they each weigh 20 pounds! It could be the extreme chess, in fact! Try playing a Blitz game with those bad boys... M-hm!

h777 thanks for bringing this to my attention.  I don't know what's going on I will contact tech support.

You know what I'm guess h777?  They must delete the forum post after a certain period.  Because my blog posts are fine.

Wesley So

and the other puzzles are too!