In the game of chess, an endgame study, or just study, is a type of chess problem that starts with a composed position—i.e. one that has been made up rather...

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...

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...

Chronicle. The articles included many diagrams with exercises and endgame studies, most of them composed by himself. He is regarded as the first composer...

correctly achieve the Babson task in an endgame study, 141 years after the theme was proposed. The solution of the study is as follows: — 1…f1=Q 2.hxg8=Q! Ne5+...

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...

and later Czechoslovak chess player, chess author and composer of endgame studies. He was one of the principal proponents of hypermodernism in chess...

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)...

This is a list of chess endgame study composers ordered alphabetically by surname. Russian names may be written with other spellings. Yochanan Afek (born...

In chess, the endgame tablebase, or simply the tablebase, is a computerised database containing precalculated evaluations of endgame positions. Tablebases...

analysis in 1782. Ponziani 1769 Ponziani's 1769 manuscript contained the endgame study here with King and two pawns versus King. White wins as follows: 1....

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...

inattentive.[citation needed] Stalemate is also a common theme in endgame studies and other chess problems. The outcome of a stalemate was standardized...

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...

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...

Defence and several other opening variations. He also composed some endgame studies. Alekhine was born into a wealthy Russian family in Moscow, Russia...

In chess, and particularly in endgame studies, domination occurs when a player controls all movement squares of an enemy piece. This article uses algebraic...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Endgame is an absurdist, tragicomic one-act play by Irish playwright Samuel Beckett. It is about a blind, paralyzed, domineering elderly man, his geriatric...

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...

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...

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...

without specifying any particular number of moves. The majority of studies are endgame positions, with varying degrees of realism or practical application...

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...

the third. Horwitz's Chess Studies (1851), co-authored with Josef Kling, is an important work on the endgame study and endgames in general. "Horwitz bishops"...

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)...

sometimes used instead, mainly in older literature. In chess problems and endgame studies, the letter S, standing for Springer, the German name for the piece...