Welcome to this active site. Each week I am going to present to you an endgame position for you to solve or to workout the best continuation. Computer analysis will also be considered. Some of these positions will come from actual historical games. Others will be composed endgame studies, but all the solutions will be relevant to the practical game. The new position will occur each SUNDAY and I will always be pleased to receive POSITIVE feedback about the positions and the analysis and I will try to acknowledge these where relevant.

Polish Player and Endgame Composer. He was a true patriot who used his own wealth to finance various chess events and especially the Polish teams visit to the 1939 Buenos Aires Olympiad. His best result was when he came 1st at Munich in 1926 ahead of Bogoljubow and Spielmann. He played in two Olympiads, Hamburg 1930 and Prague in 1931. In 1942 he was arrested by Nazi soldiers, while attending a meeting of the Warsaw chess circle. He died soon afterwards in Auschwitz concentration camp.

Fred Reinfeld, the famous American chess writer dedicated his book, The Unknown Alekhine to his memory and to other chess masters who died in the Holocaust.

 

This position comes from a study by the Polish composer. In the original study the Rook was at "a8" and the Black King at "c5". Some sources say that the original position was not a study but it came from an actual game. If this is so, I have been unable to trace the game. I expect that an actual over-the-board contest was the inspiration for the study. The composers main line: