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.

Soviet International Master and Endgame Study Composer. He was finalist or semi-finalist in several Soviet championships. In one of these competitions he beat the young Botvinnik. He won the Armenian championship many times. One of his rivals was the young Petrosian and they had many exciting battles. Kasparyan will be chiefly remembered for his studies. He won many prizes in this field. He was author of "Domination in 2545 Endgame Studies."(1980)

White has to counter the threat from the queenside passed pawns whose promotion is imminent. It is too late to block their progress but is it possible to launch an attack against the exposed Black monarch ?