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Weekly Endgame Study (184)

Yochanan Afek — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 10:10:05 +0000

Every week we present you an endgame study selected by IM Yochanan Afek: player, trainer, endgame study composer and writer. A week later the solution is published. Good luck solving!

J. Fleck & C. Lutz
1999

White to play and win

Next week the solution.

Solution last week

E. Iriarte
1995

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Weekly Endgame Study (183)

Yochanan Afek — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 14:29:16 +0000

Every week we present you an endgame study selected by IM Yochanan Afek: player, trainer, endgame study composer and writer. A week later the solution is published. Good luck solving!

E. Iriarte
1995

White to play and win

Next week the solution.

Solution last week

A. Manveljan
2000

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Weekly Endgame Study (182)

Yochanan Afek — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 07:54:28 +0000

Every week we present you an endgame study selected by IM Yochanan Afek: player, trainer, endgame study composer and writer. A week later the solution is published. Good luck solving!

A. Manveljan
2000

White to play and win

Next week the solution.

Solution last week

Y. Bazlov & A. Skripnik
1994

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Weekly Endgame Study (181)

Yochanan Afek — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 14:33:41 +0000

Every week we present you an endgame study selected by IM Yochanan Afek: player, trainer, endgame study composer and writer. A week later the solution is published. Good luck solving!

Y. Bazlov & A. Skripnik
1994

White to play and draw

Next week the solution.

Solution last week

I. Bondar
2003

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Weekly Endgame Study (180)

Peter Doggers — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 08:13:44 +0000

Every week we present you an endgame study selected by IM Yochanan Afek: player, trainer, endgame study composer and writer. A week later the solution is published. Good luck solving!

I. Bondar
2003

White to play and win

Next week the solution.

Solution last week

G. Umnov
1999

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Weekly Endgame Study (179)

Yochanan Afek — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 10:00:28 +0000

Every week we present you an endgame study selected by IM Yochanan Afek: player, trainer, endgame study composer and writer. A week later the solution is published. Good luck solving!

G. Umnov
1999

White to play and win

Next week the solution.

Solution last week

A. Sochnev
2007

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Weekly Endgame Study (178)

Yochanan Afek — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 10:00:57 +0000

Every week we present you an endgame study selected by IM Yochanan Afek: player, trainer, endgame study composer and writer. A week later the solution is published. Good luck solving!

A. Sochnev
2007

White to play and draw

Next week the solution.

Solution last week

Y. Afek
2008

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Weekly Endgame Study (177)

Yochanan Afek — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 11:26:15 +0000

Every week we present you an endgame study selected by IM Yochanan Afek: player, trainer, endgame study composer and writer. A week later the solution is published. Good luck solving!

Y. Afek
2008

White to play and draw

Next week the solution.

Solution last week

Below you see the position from the game Gelfand-Wang Yue, Russian Team Ch 2010. In the dropdown selector above the board you can pick the position with the rook on g1, which was the ’study’ Gelfand showed to Carlsen at the Kings’ Tournament in Bazna.

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Weekly Endgame Study (176) – improved

Peter Doggers — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 21:58:10 +0000

Every week we present you an endgame study – this week not selected by IM Yochanan Afek but by another, quite famous player from Israel. Last week, at the Kings’ Tournament in Bazna, Boris Gelfand showed an ending to Magnus Carlsen, and he was happy to show it to our readers too. Good luck solving! Update: improved version after Mr. Gelfand emailed us.

At first we gave the position below, which actually happened in the game, and in which there’s only one winning move. But in fact a slightly altered position makes a much nicer study, as Boris Gelfand noted in an email to us. First the ‘wrong’ study, which you might try to solve as well:

From the game Gelfand-Wang Yue
Russian Team Ch 2010

White to play and win

And now here’s the position Gelfand showed to Carlsen last week:

Inspired by Gelfand-Wang Yue
Russian Team Ch 2010

White to play and win

Try solving without checking the tablebase! Next week the solution.

Solution last week

H. van der Heijden
2003

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Weekly Endgame Study (175)

Yochanan Afek — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 13:03:20 +0000

Every week we present you an endgame study selected by IM Yochanan Afek: player, trainer, endgame study composer and writer. A week later the solution is published. Good luck solving!

H. van der Heijden
2003

White to play and draw

Next week the solution.

Solution last week

N. Rezvov & S.Tkachenko
1997

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