Free Chess Help Last Endgame Puzzle
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Endgame Puzzle: July 26, 2009
Weekend Edition
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Can you name this great endgame player?
Click the picture for the puzzle
Hint: Tenth World Chess Champion and Rival to Bobby Fischer. Don't scroll down and cheat :-)
Quote: "When I am in form, my style is a little bit stubborn, almost brutal. Sometimes I feel a great spirit of fight which drives me on . . . "
*Disclaimer - Some of the problems have multiple solutions. However, I will give the solution that I feel is an easier pattern to recognize or better technique. Further, depending on the level of difficulty, sometimes I will not give the optimal response to try to imitate human play. If you click the move list and solution, sometimes I will insert alternate moves and explanations (check and see). I welcome discussion and feel free to ask or answer a person's question on the message boards! I would highly recommend to practice the problems at a board too! *
Hope you enjoy!
Pete
Older Daily Puzzles
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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