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	Endgame - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The line between middlegame and endgame is often not clear, and may occur gradually or with the quick exchange of a few pairs of pieces.
		Many people have composed endgame studies, endgame positions which are solved by finding a win for white when there is no obvious way of winning, or a draw when it seems white must lose.
		A king and pawn endgame with an outside passed pawn should be a far easier win than a middlegame a rook ahead.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Endgame (2686 words)

	Chessville - Reviews - Endgame Challenge
		Endgame studies have always terrified me. This is because I may be among the world’s worst endgame players and I have the game scores to prove it.
		Endgame studies, on the other hand, are usually inspired by real endings but have one and only one solution, and are designed to be highly instructive.
		The 250 endgame studies that remain are the cream of the crop – challenging and instructive.
	www.chessville.com /reviews/reviews_endgame_challenge.htm (569 words)

	Endgame study - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The form is considered to have been raised to an art in the late 19th century, with A.
		However, some famous players have also composed endgame studies, with Emanuel Lasker, Richard Réti, and Jan Timman being perhaps the most notable ones.
		Various methods of classifying studies have been attempted; a commonly used indexing system is the GBR code.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Endgame_study (681 words)

	Endgame - SmartyBrain Encyclopedia and Dictionary
		In Bishop and pawn endgames, the mobility of the bishop is a crucial factor.
		Two knights cannot force checkmate against a lone king, but if the weaker side also has a pawn, checkmate is sometimes possible, because positions which would be stalemate without the pawn are not (specifically, the pawn must be blocked by a knight behind the Troitzky line).
		In the endgame, it is better for the player with more pawns to exchange pieces but not pawns because king and pawn endings are the most easily won.
	smartybrain.com /index.php/Endgame (946 words)

	PRACTICAL CHESS ENDING + COMPUTER ANALYSIS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Endgame strategy is very different from the middlegame and has its own set of rules and exceptions.
		An endgame study has to follow strict rules of composition, especially if it is entered into a composing competition.
		Endgame studies are important to the practical player because they enhance his imagination and help him learn and enjoy areas of theory without too much effort.
	hometown.aol.com /brigosling (704 words)

	Composers of Chess by Bill Wall
		Studies are positions in which White (who usually plays first) has to reach a clearly won or drawn position following the best play from both sides.
		Karl Leonid Kubbel (1891-1942) was a Russian endgame composer and problemist.
		Alexei Troitsky (1866-1942) is regarded as the greatest chess composer of endgame studies.
	www.geocities.com /SiliconValley/Lab/7378/composer.htm (932 words)

	Gambit Publications Limited - Endgame Challenge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The studies were subjected to a rigorous checking procedure, during which thousands of unsatisfactory positions were weeded out.
		Endgame studies, which typically feature just a handful of pieces, usually look very much like they might have been taken from an actual game.
		That is the beauty of a good endgame study - but don't expect to do much more than to scratch the surface if you have spent less than half an hour on each diagram.
	www.badbishop.com /gambit/books/endgamechal.html (888 words)

	Endgame Studies
		is pleased to present, on a weekly basis, a selected endgame study for your enjoyment.
		The result is one of the outstanding collection of endgame studies ever published.
		To subscribe, 25 euros or the equivalent in USD may be sent to Marcel van Herck, Brialmontlei 66 B 2018 Antwerpen, Belgium arves@skynet.be Payment is also possible via Paypal to this e-mail address.
	www.chesscafe.com /endgame/endgame.htm (233 words)

	The London Chess Centre
		Endgame - Instead of boring lectures on the endgame, learn endgame technique with the use of breathtaking artistic endgame compositions, chosen for their relevance with normal play, with Endgame Studies 2.0.
		It's aim is to teach a student the intricacies of the endgame through a theoretical section, which includes over 700 games/lectures, each of them illustrating theoretical and practical endgame methods.
		Artur Mandler was one of the giants of 20th-century chess endgame study composition; he had a mastery of the natural endgame study which has perhaps been equaled only by his friend Richard Reti and the famous Russian composer Nikolai Grigoriev.
	www.chesscenter.com /chessassistant.html (2367 words)

	No Rook Unturned (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Study Story formed by fragments from letters exchanged between Selman, Marwitz and Kok concerning the composition of an endgame study.
		The Saavedra study continued to thrill new generations of chess addicts, but the essential facts of the story remained unchanged: Selman's version was considered the final truth.
		The Saavedra study is a chess position with four men, a stipulation, and a solution of 6 or 7 moves long.
	www.geocities.com /hhgrondijs/reclamesaavedratext.html (1385 words)

	John Beasley, 7 St James Road, Harpenden, Herts AL5 4NX, England; 0582-715858; 18 Apr 94.
		This appears to have been the first study to explore the complexities of BN v N. To win, Black must play his knight to a square of the same colour as the bishop and then sacrifice the bishop; the resulting N v N ending is won.
		There are two elementary P v P endgames with the pawns on the seventh rank on page 88 (also a problem with seven men against two) and two complete chapters on the endgame: "I finali" (pp 127-33) and "Considerazioni conclusive" (pp 134-5).
		Two studies with N to win against two unmoved pawns, described as "theoretical studies: the positions are natural (or at least simple) and the solutions are strategically motivated, but the play is not unique.
	www.pion.ch /Losing/LCLIT3AR.html (18836 words)

	Endgame (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Rooks should almost always be placed behind passed pawns, whether one's own or the opponent's (the Tarrasch rule).
		In Queen and pawn endings, the dominant theme is for the player with more pawns to avoid perpetual check and advance one of his pawns to get a second queen.
		In his landmark book Basic Chess Endings, Reuben Fine inaccurately stated that in endgames without pawns, at least the advantage of a rook (or equivalent material) is required to win, with two exceptions in which less of an advantage is sufficient.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/E/Endgame.htm (2307 words)

	Chess with Chinese Pieces
		The usual specification for an endgame study is for white to win or draw, but not in a fixed number of moves.
		The use of fairy pieces in endgame studies is much less frequent than their use in direct mate and helpmate problems.
		Memorization of some standard endgame procedures is also useful, but the effort required for this is much less than that for openings, and the settings are far more universal.
	www.silcom.com /~barnowl/chess-clp.htm (4709 words)

	BCPS Library Catalogue
		53 endgame studies, with a commentary by A. Mandler; in German.
		A theoretical treatise on the endgame of queen against rook and knight; in French.
		An examinations of positions and studies featuring a queen against a rook's or bishop's pawn in its seventh rank; in Dutch.
	www.bcps.knightsfield.co.uk /lib1r.html (1480 words)

	Find The Move! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		There is also a collection of 89 endgame studies by the Platov brothers.
		Endgame studies are composed problems and the task is not to find a mate in X moves, but to either win or draw.
		Studies can be pure art and always have a surprising twist.
	www.enpassant.dk /chess/problems/problemsuk.htm (193 words)

	PRACTICAL CHESS ENDGAME + COMPUTER ANALYSIS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Welcome to this active site.Each week I am going to present to you a 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.
		Leonid Kubbel, Alexis Troitzky,and the Platov brothers were leading the emerging art of endgame study composing.They were bringing new ideas and imagination to a game which according to Capablanca had become sterile and played out.
		inviting you to send me a endgame position you find interesting and would like to share with others.It can be from a game or a endgame study (similar to those that have already appeared).
	members.aol.com /brigosling/psitn029.htm (409 words)

	Buy Chess Software
		With the help of the Endgame Turbo, endgames with five or less pieces will be played dramatically better, since the programs can use the Endgame Turbo in their search.
		Study typical middlegame structures and their plans, arranged depending on the openings they come from, with Encyclopedia of Middlegame.
		Endgame — Instead of boring lectures, learn endgame technique with the use of breathtaking artistic endgame compositions, chosen for their relevance to real play, with Studies 2.0.
	www.justchess.biz /chess-software.php (2228 words)

	1000 Chess Problems & Endgame Studies on PocketGear.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Software programs 1000 Chess Problems and 1000 Chess Endgame Studies (ChessCafe) will be of interest to amateur chess players, both the beginners and experienced ones.
		The best chess problems and studies, most of which, regardless of the level of complexity, being distinguished by wisecrack and ingenious solutions, logic design and brilliant patterns, have been selected from various popular compositions in the course of program development.
		Opportunity to classify problems and studies by the number of moves and chess pieces, and by the author's family name.
	www.pocketgear.com /software_detail.asp?id=14030 (730 words)

	EG (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Classification of Endgames Studies by J.R. Harman.
		So have pity for the fl queen who in the realm of endgame studies plays a most disadvantageous role and is made to appear an ignominious figure.
		The qualitative, and in particular the quantitative dimensions of the modern study are rapidly increasing.
	www.gadycosteff.com /eg (3823 words)

	Chess is Fun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Russian IM Dvoretsky's latest work, Dvoretsky’s Endgame Manual, is sure to become a classic reference book on one of the most difficult and subtle phases in chess.
		More than 2450 endgame exercises taken from practical games, endgame studies Training examples, all classified according to no less than 500 endgame themes.
		With the help of the Endgame Turbo, endgames with five or less pieces will be played dramatically better in Fritz, Nimzo, Junior, Hiarcs, or Shredder playing programs.
	www.queensac.com /software4.html (177 words)

	Chess Endgame
		There is one simple secret of endgame play that experts know, but few beginners understand.
		The players who understand the secret can judge when to trade down from the middle game into the endgame simply by knowing what endgame positions are favorable without mental reckoning.
		Accurate moves in the endgame are required even when the technique is simple.
	www.logicalchess.com /resources/lessons/endgame/index.html (513 words)

	Tim Krabbé-60 Jubilee Tourney - Endgame Studies
		That endgame composition is a form of art, and therefore a matter of taste, was rather shockingly illustrated by the differences in our initial selections - when we showed each other our first top-9's, not a single study was in both of them.
		Harold insisted that it was 'my' tourney and that therefore I had to speak the final word, but even if his own ranking would have been different in a few places, we both like the one that is presented here, and he influenced it greatly.
		Studies not in the final award are at the disposal of the authors.
	www.xs4all.nl /~timkr/tk60/tk60st_e.html (2731 words)

	English EGChessPro Documentation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		EGChessPro is a freeware program (see the license) that helps to compose, to solve and to store endgame studies and chess problems (direct mate, helpmate, selfmate,...).
		If the stipulation is + or =, the problem is treated like a endgame study, otherwise the problem is treated like a chess problem.
		They are indispensable to solve many endgame studies and you must install they if you want solve this type of problems with Crafty.
	egchesspro.sourceforge.net /en/egchesspro.html (3136 words)

	ICCA Journal, Volume 22: Number 2 (June 1999) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Although the techniques for constructing chess endgame databases are well understood, it is a permanent challenge to extend the size of the endgames that can be computed with the resources currently available.
		Ken Thompson's pioneering attack on 5-piece endgames was limited to those with at most one Pawn.
		Experiments for the KPPKP endgame yielded reductions in the required space and time by factors of more than 50.
	supertech.lcs.mit.edu /~heinz/iccaj_db/node33.html (1276 words)

	ChessAssistance.com Interesting endgame studies books
		As some of you are probably aware, I have a soft spot for puzzle-format books, and I'm also a fan of the endgame study.
		Each one discusses the studies of a particular endgame study composer.
		In fact, I believe him to be an alien from another planet, since some his studies are so incredibly rich, twisted, and complex.
	www.chessassistance.com /News/Masterpieces_of_Chess_Com.html (459 words)

	Chessville - Reviews - Brilliant Chess Studies by Anatoly Kuznetsov - Reviewed by Prof Nagesh Havanur
		The work of the new generation of composers like Kralin, Bazlov and Pervakov, however, is not easy to label and categorize as their studies show a synthesis of both styles.
		Every composition is followed by two companion studies in which the same idea is developed and refined in a different form and variation.
		The aim of EG is to cover all aspects of the composed endgame study and to publish award winning studies wherever in the world they may have appeared.
	www.chessville.com /reviews/BrilliantChessStudies.htm (814 words)

	Secrets of Pawn Endings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Endgames with Pawn endings are the most basic type of ending - without an understanding of them it is impossible to master more complicated endings.
		This book provides a thorough grounding in pawn endings, ranging from the simple to the highly complex.
		The authors have included many interesting endgame studies for the reader to solve.
	www.thechessstore.com /product/EM2555PP (55 words)

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		I did, and then, some days later, he rang me. It was about an endgame study made by his friend Francisco Benko -no relation to Paul Benko, the Hungaro-American grandmaster who prides himself on being the best grandmaster-composer of all time.
		There was one study about which he was unhappy, since he had the feeling that it had been anticipated.
		With this study, the Argentinean Benko -the other one, who had remained in the shadow- has made an important contribution to a small part of the theoretical endgame theory, this enormous field in which it is extremely diffcult to find anything new without cyberneticassistance.
	www.fortunecity.com /victorian/delacroix/2/scalise3/benko00.html (1391 words)

	British Endgame Study News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		If you are interested in endgame studies, then John Beasley's British Endgame Study News is recommended.
		Some of these are devoted to British studies of a particular period, with the intention of gradually building up a record of the best of British study composition; others are devoted to the studies of a particular composer, either British or foreign, or to some other topic of interest.
		John offers a bookselling service for works on studies in English, with particular reference to books not readily available through other channels.
	www.bstephen.freeuk.com /besn/besn.html (278 words)

	ChessBase Events
		In the endgame study solving contest, which was held simultaneously, there was a unique occurrence: 16-year-old Daniel Stellwagen made an unprecedented 100% score, leaving four-time champion Marcel van Herck (Antwerp, Belgium) nine points behind.
		IM Hans Böhm made his debut as a study solver and took bronze another ten points behind Van Herck.
		Eddy van Beers, member of the Belgian Olympiad squad in Istanbul, came in fourth, ahead of endgame database guru Harold van der Heijden and Dolf Wissmann, winner of the bronze medal at this year's World Championship Solving Chess Problems and Studies, and winner of the Dutch Solving Championship for Endgame Studies in 1999.
	www.chessbase.com /puzzle/puzz17a.htm (386 words)

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