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Zepler, 1928. White to play and draw. This is an excellent study in which white is hopelessly lost but comes up with an unbelievable idea to save the game.
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Selesniev, 1914. White to play and win.
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Mason vs. Marshall. Paris 1900. Black to play and win.
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Troitzky 1937. White to play and win. This is another very complicated study with a lot of variations.
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Menchilk vs. Thomas 1938. Black to play and draw. This study is very instructive and shows the best technique for dealing with doubled pawns in a rook and pawn endgame.
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Mackenzie 1901. The object of this study is to use mating threats against the black king to eventually take the black queen.
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This was taken from the game ALekhine vs. Shishkov 1919. With the last move black offered his Queen to force through his g-pawn. Whatever is white to do...?
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Kasparyan, 1939.This study is more complicated than it appears and has a great finish.
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Reti, 1928. This is typical endgame study from the hypermodernist Richard Reti. | Read More
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Kubbel 1934. Here is another great endgame study from the 1930's. Black has an h-pawn on the 2nd rank which will soon Queen but white has possible mating threats against the black king. This is a very double-edged puzzle with chances for both si... | Read More