Haunting positions #2

Another positions that keeps coming back from subconscious is this mate in one with white to move. The reason I guess it is that it is a bit against natural instinct. It is nice that I am one to deliver. This is from 5 minute blitz game in FICS. I am not sure how difficult it is. I had 3:12 and my opponent 2:56. For me it took 5 seconds to see it.

A draw!!

Couple of positions remain with you for the longest times and come back to haunt you. This one is one of the better ones. It is between me and Jonfern in FICS 5 minute blitz match when I have had inferior position for some time but I am pressing my opponent on time. Here my opponent has 22 seconds and I have 40 seconds. So can you find the drawing move in 40?



Maybe it's not that difficult but most satisfying anyway for me.

King and two pawns x 2

I have looked out today games in the collection of my own games for king and pawn endgames and found several positions I should have handled better. I published already one video of king and two pawns versus king and two pawns endgame.

And then there were more videos!

I've made couple more chessvideos during last days: a video of me playing my sicilian against equally rated opponent and a video of recent game where I played black in very interesting positions of King's English Nimzowitsch-Flohr Variation.

The curious case of a King and Queen versus Queen endgame

Here's a video for 5 minute blitz endgame with hopefully revealing mistakes and right solutions.

More fresh material

I analysed superb defensive display of my friend Ereshkigal. Check out the Rybka brilliancy sacrifice in one of the variations!!

I also recorded another endgame video for chessvideos.tv.

I have found out new ideas on the opening also but especially I am feeling at the moment that working on the endgames improves my overall game as I am getting more feeling for the positions and what I would like to do to it. There's already couple nice examples but now I am heading for jam session with my friends so more about that later...

Some new material!

Here's a treat for all the people waiting for some update. It's a video I worked out on the king and rook versus rook endgame.

Lately I've also published an endgame video of my game against Gouldy and some analysis on interesting 5 minute blitz game against my friend waparker on chessvideos.tv.