Weekly Endgame Study (162)
Every week we present you an endgame study - instead, this week we selected ten studies by Vasily Smyslov, who was the most productive World Champion as it comes to endgame studies. It was an early love of his, and after he stopped playing tournaments he returned to his old hobby and produced many more brilliancies.Ten Smyslov studies
Game viewer by ChessTempoThis selection comes from a bigger file which can be found here.
Solution last week
As could already be found in the round report on the tournament website, the solution is 65.Rg1! Kf3 66.Ke6! Kf2 (or 66...Kxe4 67.Rxg2 d5+ 68.Kd7) 67.Ra1 g1Q 68.Rxg1 Kxg1 69.Kd7=.
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