In the game of chess, an endgame study, or just study, is a composed position—that is, one that has been made up rather than played in an actual game—presented...
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The Réti endgame study is a chess endgame study by Richard Réti. It was published in 1921 in Kagans Neueste Schachnachrichten. It demonstrates how a king...
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The endgame (or ending) is the final stage of a chess game which occurs after the middlegame. It begins when few pieces are left on the board. The line...
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In chess, the endgame tablebase, or simply tablebase, is a computerised database containing precalculated evaluations of endgame positions. Tablebases...
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Richard Réti (section Famous endgame study)
Austro-Hungarian, later Czechoslovak, chess player, chess author, and composer of endgame studies. He was one of the principal proponents of hypermodernism in chess...
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appearing in an endgame study published in 1604 by Alessandro Salvio, one of the first writers on the game, and in shatranj studies dating back to the...
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Stalemate (section Effect on endgame theory)
inattentive.[citation needed] Stalemate is also a common theme in endgame studies and other chess problems. The outcome of a stalemate was standardized...
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master and composer of endgame studies and problems. Grandmaster for chess compositions (2015). He published about 120 studies and won many awards, e...
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Alois Wotawa (section Example endgame study)
and endgame studies. He was born and died in Vienna. He was a prosecutor and a member of the Nazi Party. Wotawa composed more than 350 endgame studies, which...
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chess endgame is a chess endgame in which only a few pieces remain, and no pawns. The basic checkmates are types of pawnless endgames. Endgames without...
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Passed pawn (section Passed pawns in the endgame)
example of the power of passed pawns is seen in the conclusion of an endgame study by Leopold Mitrofanov (see diagram). Black, with a queen, bishop, and...
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Saavedra position (category Chess endgames)
Saavedra position The Saavedra position is one of the best-known chess endgame studies. It is named after the Spanish priest Fernando Saavedra (1849–1922)...
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Plaskett's Puzzle (redirect from Tractor Study)
Gijs van Breukelen, 1970 Plaskett's Puzzle is a chess endgame study created by the Dutch endgame composer Gijs van Breukelen (February 27, 1946 – December...
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is an important endgame for chess players to master, since most other endgames have the potential of reducing to this type of endgame via exchanges of...
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Hexagonal chess (section Endgame studies)
two.) En passant captures are permitted in Brusky's chess. These endgame studies apply to Brusky's hexagonal variant: king + rook can checkmate a lone...
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Domenico Lorenzo Ponziani (section Endgame studies)
Ponziani 1782 Ponziani 1782 Ponziani's 1769 manuscript contained the endgame study above. White wins as follows: 1. Kf4 Kg7 2. Kf5 Kh8 3. Kg5 Or Ke6 or...
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Arthur John Roycroft (born 25 July 1929, London) is an English chess endgame study composer and author. In 1959 he was awarded the title International...
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EG (magazine) (redirect from The Chess Endgame Study Circle)
EG is a magazine which publishes endgame studies and discusses various aspects of the endgame in chess. The letters "EG" signify "End Game" and also the...
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Outline of chess (section Endgames)
in games. Endgame positions Endgame study – A composed position with a goal of either winning or drawing Réti endgame study – endgame study illustrate...
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Much literature about chess endgames has been produced in the form of books and magazines. A bibliography of endgame books is below. Many chess masters...
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Endgame is an absurdist, tragicomic one-act play by Irish playwright Samuel Beckett. It is about a blind, paralyzed, domineering elderly man, his geriatric...
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Checkmate, Batsford, ISBN 978-1849942706 Roycroft, A. J. (1981), The Chess Endgame Study: A Comprehensive Introduction, Courier Dover Publications, ISBN 9780486241869...
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Chronicle. The articles included many diagrams with exercises and endgame studies, most of them composed by himself. He is regarded as the first composer...
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greatest composers of chess endgame studies. He is widely regarded as the founder of the modern art of composing chess studies (Seirawan 2003:91). Troitsky...
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chess masters in the early 1930s. He was also a leading composer of endgame studies. He died of tuberculosis at the age of 38. In 1924, Matisons won the...
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Domination (chess) (category Chess endgames)
In chess, and particularly in endgame studies, domination occurs when a player controls all movement squares of an enemy piece. This article uses algebraic...
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The two knights endgame is a chess endgame with a king and two knights versus a king. In contrast to a king and two bishops (on opposite-colored squares)...
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July 2021. Hornecker, Siegfried (30 April 2022). "Study of the Month - A short history of endgame study castling I". ChessBase. Retrieved 1 May 2022. "Codex...
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Defence and several other opening variations. He also composed some endgame studies. Alekhine was born into a wealthy Russian family in Moscow, Russia...
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