Basic Endgames

Chapter 3: Exercise 23

D Skripchenko-Lautier
• H.Hunt
Leon 2001

Black to Play

Can Black win?

Chapter 3: Exercise 24

D Marshall
• Maroczy
Ostend 1905

Black to Play

Can you see how Black can increase his advantage?

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Chapter 3: Exercise 25

D Botvinnik
• Lisitsin
Moscow 1935

White to Play

Can White hold out despite being a pawn down?

Chapter 3: Exercise 26

D Sakharov
• Vasiukov
USSR ch (Alma Ata) 1968
(Analysis position)

White to Play

How can White convert his advantage?

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 Basic Endgames

Chapter 3: Exercise 27

Berger 1922

Black to Play

How does Black draw?

Chapter 3: Exercise 28

o Szily
• Karakas
World Championship Zonal 1960

Black to Play

Can Black win?

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Chapter 3: Exercise 29

o Kotov
• Botvinnik
Moscow 1947

Black to Play

How should Black recapture?

Chapter 3: Exercise 30

o D.Howell
• Charleshouse
South end 2001

White to Play

Can you see how White won quickly?

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 Basic Endgames

Chapter 3: Exercise 31

D Cheshkovsky
• Flear
Wijk aan Zee B 1988

Black to Play

What result and why?

Chapter 3: Exercise 32

D Flear
• Emms
Hastings Challengers 1989/90

White to Play

Any suggestions for White?

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Chapter 3: Exercise 33

o Voitzikh
• Tikhomirova
USSR 1960

Black to Play

This seems to be easily winning for Black, but is it?

Chapter 3: Exercise 34

o Spielmann
• Capablanca
Moscow 1926

White to Play

Can you find a defence for White?

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 Basic Endgames

Chapter 3: Exercise 35

o Unzicker
• Lundin
Amsterdam Olympiad 1954

White to Play

How should White proceed?

Chapter 3: Exercise 36

Exercise

White to Play

How does White win?

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Chapter 3: Exercise 37

o Nimzowitsch
• Tarrasch
San Sebastian 1911

Black to Play

What is the logical result?

Chapter 3: Exercise 38

o Polugaevsky
• Psakhis
USSR ch (Moscow) 1983

White to Play

White has an extra pawn.

Should he simplify into an ending or use tactical means to try and exploit
his advantage?

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Chapter 3: Exercise 39

o Short
• Bagirov
Baku 1983

Black to Play

Black is faced with the threat of'iVg7+ followed by taking the h-pawn.
What should he do?

Chapter 3: Exercise 40

o Colle
• Alekhine
Paris 1925

Black to Play

Can you find the way to break down

White's blockade?

Solutions and detailed endgames are to be found in Chapter Nine.

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Chapter 4: Exercise 1

o Short
• Nunn
Brussels 1986

White to Play

White has a material advantage but Black has active play around the white
king.
Should White still be looking to win or is it time to bailout with a draw?
Find the best line of play.

Chapter 4: Exercise 2

o Karpov
• Timman
Tilburg 1977
(Analysis position)

White to Play

Is White winning?

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 Intermediate Level

Chapter 4: Exercise 3

o Bogolyubov
• Stahlberg
Kemeri 1938

White to Play

White has the most dangerous passed pawn.

Can he benefit from this

Chapter 4: Exercise 4

o Marshall
• Alekhine
Bradley Beach 1929

Black to Play

White's passed pawn is further advanced but Black has the outside passed
pawn.
Can Black exploit this?

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Chapter 4: Exercise 5

o Colle
• Pirc
Frankfurt 1930
(Analysis by Grigoriev)

Black to Play

Can Black win?

Chapter 4: Exercise 6

o Filep
• Mariotti
Reggio Emilia 1969/70

White to Play

White (to move) has time to come to the defence of the f-pawn, but
Black's active king means that he is likely to be outmanoeuvred.
Nevertheless, is there a defence?

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 Intermediate Level

Chapter 4: Exercise 7

o Kostro
• Filipowicz
Poland 1963

Black to Play

Tricky manoeuvring may be required.

Can you find Black's best move?

Chapter 4: Exercise 8

o IIjin-Zhenevsky
• Botvinnik
USSR 1938

White to Play

Analyse this out to a win for White.

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Chapter 4: Exercise 9

o Pomar
• Cuadras
Olot 1974

Black to Play

Equal pawns but White's king is more advanced.

So - what result?

Chapter 4: Exercise 10

Exercise

White to Play

Can you find the way to win?

If in doubt, the hint in Chapter 6 may come in useful!

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 Intermediate Level

Chapter 4: Exercise 11

Exercise

Black to Play

How does Black defend?

Chapter 4: Exercise 12

Karstedt 1896

White to Play

Can you show how White is winning?

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Chapter 4: Exercise 13

o Grunfeld
• Wagner
Breslau 1925

White to Play

What is White's best move - and why?

Chapter 4: Exercise 14

o Short
• Kasparov
Belgrade 1989

Black to Play

What result and why?

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