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Positions that tell a story.
Each collection takes up a question: where did the game turn? Who found the one move, who did not? Why was it over? Every position comes from a real game and is checked with the tablebase.
WorksheetEvery click puts together 20 new positions of Collections at random to print – or 10, 30 or 40, 10 a page, with a page of solutions if you like.As a PDF: choose “Save as PDF” in the print window of the browser.I · OwletII · Young owlIII · Tawny owlIV · Eagle owlV · Wise owlMissed winMissed saveDéjà vuWhy resign?Master endgames
- Big 4 · points from an equal start (line: 50 %) Magnus Carlsen57.4% José Raúl Capablanca58.9% Anatoly Karpov57.3% Vasily Smyslov55.9% I All players 211 players The world champions, the classics and the players above 2700 – how they played their endgames, measured against their own group; the Big 4 in front. The best technique against their own group Paul Morphy+8.2 percentage points Garry Kasparov+8.1 percentage points Evgeny Alekseev+7 percentage points
- II Déjà vu 104 positions The same position in several games, exactly one move wins or holds – who found it and who did not. The position missed most often 0 of 3 found the move
- III Where did it turn? 5,714 positions The moment one move changed the result – a win thrown away or a draw lost. Find the move that would have held it. Win thrown away 2,365Draw lost 3,349
- IV Why resign? 15,568 positions The last position of lost games: mostly lost indeed, but sometimes not at all – resigned or lost on time. 15,113 lost indeed455 given up too early
- V Master endgames 30 games Famous endgames of great players and endgames of the Big 4 won from an equal position – to play through with the value of each position. Famous endgames José Raúl Capablanca – Saviely Tartakower1924 Alexander Alekhine – José Raúl Capablanca1927 Robert James Fischer – Mark E. Taimanov1971