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"Revolutions in endgame theory" is the exciting title of a video Karsten Müller recorded on the occasion of the release of the new Endgame Turbo 5.
In this video, the endgame expert looks back to the beginnings of computer-assisted endgame analysis and links in his own analysis methods,
in which he also regularly integrates the "Syzygy" tablebases.

Of course, Müller does not pass over the opportunity to present some of the most spectacular discoveries made over the course of this development.
The 9th World Championship match between Karpov and Kasparov in 1984 is just one of many examples:
a whole series of winning proofs were developed for the position below for White - one of them by Karsten Müller himself.
And yet: they all turned out to be false, as we now know thanks to the tablebases!

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GrandMaster Loek van Wely (King Loek) with his young son, pointing at the Arves website,

showing his interest for Endgame studies and the Arves website.

(Picture taken at the Dutch otb Chess Championship in Amsterdam)

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Sadly we have to inform that honorary member of Arves, Roger Missiaen has passed away on 19.6.2018 at an age of 93.

Picture taken in 2016 where he had an age of 91.

Missiaen, Roger 1925-2018

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You may find some nice presentations (in Dutch) of studies

composed by Leonid Kubbel

at Vimeo by

GM Matthew Sadler

(uploaded by Ed van de Gevel).

Links:

https://vimeo.com/21226658

https://vimeo.com/21661621

3 studies

https://vimeo.com/21987391

2 studies

https://vimeo.com/22302757

2 studies

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Arpad Rusz has created Syzygy Endgame Explorer (SEE) which is software for mining the newly generated 7-man endgame tablebases.

The tool can not only find mutual zugzwangs but can also identify positions where interesting moves are the only winning ones

(like when a piece moves to a corner square or it is sacrificed).

His goal is to write a tool similar to CQL which searches tablebases instead of pgn files.

Look at his nice website for more information about it.

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At YouTube GM Niclas Huschenbeth is presents (in German language) many amazing (Unglaubliche Studien) Endgame studies.

#5 Huschenbeth & Minski

#4 Belyavsky

#3 Zhukov

#2 Nielsen

#1 Huschenbeth & Minski

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Sadly we have to inform that honorary member of Arves, Ignace Vandecasteele has passed away on 31.5.2018 at an age of 91.

Vandecasteele, Ignace 1926-2018

Vladimir Samilo has composed two twin studies to remember Ignace

and both are inspirated by studies of Ignace:

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Many new tournaments are opened see: Tournament Calendar;

EG 212 issued, almost 100 pages !

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Yifan Hou misses study like win against Caruana !

In the game Caruana - Yifan Hou in the Grenke Chess Classic tournament in Germany, Karlsruhe/Baden Baden the following position came up.

Black played 64... a5 and the game ended in a draw, but black had the following study like win !

64. ... Kd2 65. Bxa6 Nd3+ ! 66. cxd3 d4 !

To replay:

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Argentinian magazine special issue Finales Y Temas 102 by Jose Copie.

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Mystery about composer J.Fauchner, as pointed out by Rainer Staudte.

Was it Julius Fauchner (1820-1878) who composed one in 1854?

Because most of the known studies are composed from 1995 to 2005 (published in Chess Life & Review) it seems to be someone else?

Who can help us out here?

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Registered users are able to download compressed zip-files with all the PGN-files on this site.

See menu: Collections, Downloads.

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Otb GM Christian Chirila from the St.Louis Chess Club presents at YouTube nice examples of studies composed by Mario Garcia.

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Provisional award Stigter-64 JT 2017 published.

More PDF files of the website of the late Iuri Akobia are copied to Arves to secure them.

Most of them are added to the Awards page.

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Study section of the German magazine "Problem Forum" now coming available at Arves.

Look at menu: Collections, Problem Forum.

Thanks to Martin Minski.

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Martin Minski has created an endgamestudy (for Chessstar 2018)

inspired by the finish of the game by Vishy Anand - Grischuk,A

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Yochanan Afek best study solver at Nunspeet.

In this PDF you may find the 6 studies to be solved.

The result table:

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Who can provide some basic information (with a picture) about the following composers to create a personal page to honor them?

Vassily Pomogalov, C. Sansom, VN. Kondratev, V.Khenkin, J.Szulc, A. Kuryatnikov, Sergei Manyakhin,

R.Bania, V.Zheltukov, E.Kolsenikov, V.Nikitin, L.Sedlak, D.Blundell, L.Mozes,

R.Svoboda and also others not yet having a page here, see list: Ranking Composers.

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At Chessbase.com the study of the month article is about the Platov brothers, written by Siegfried Hornecker..

Also at Chessbase.com Yochanan Afek presents an article with more information about the Solving Contest at WijkaanZee.

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On request did some menu changes. Hope it is more clear now?

On request new articles with Miniatures are added.

See menu Endgame studies, miniatures.

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Yochanan Afek at Chessbase.com reports extensively about the Jan Timman 65 JT.

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Picture found of Louma, Josef 1898-1955.

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Twan Burg wins 9th Arves Solving Contest 2018.

See Arves 9th Solving Ty 2018

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Wouter J.G. Mees

(6.8.1921 – 25.1.2018)

It is with great regret that we inform you that the patriarch of Dutch endgame study composition

passed away on January 25 at the age of 96.

He was one of the founders of the Alexander Rueb Vereniging voor Eindspelstudie (ARVES).

An obituary by Harold van der heijden is published in EG212 (April 2018)

and in Dutch in the magazine of the KNSB.

Mees, Wouter 1921-2018

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Vladimir Samilo (Ukraine) composed the following study in memory of Wouter Mees.

The study is made after a study by Wouter Mees created in 1939!

Peter Krug also has created a study in Memory of Wouter Mees.

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EG211 has been issued, contents and cover:

Supplement Jan Timman 65 JT Award report and analyses:

From left to right: Jan Timman, Hans Bohm, Yochanan Afek and Harold van der Heijden.

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The mysterious French/Canadian composer F.Chapais (17th century) identified as Gaspard Monge !

See in article: Chapais, F 1746-1818

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Database Harold van der Heijden has grown to 89.000 collected endgame studies.

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Another fresh study presented by Renan Araujo (Portugese) about a study of Martin Minski and Steffen Slumstrup Nielsen at You Tube.

Look at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XrB8_QOHRs&t=11s and http://viladorenan.blogspot.de/

and an amazing ending with Yochanan Afek:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6pKAPuM0_k

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Read: Study of the month by Siegfried Hornecker at Chessbase with tributes to John Roycroft, Harold van der Heijden and more.

He issues monthly interesting articles about Endgame studies !

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New book from Thinkers Publishing.

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Studies presented on YouTube in Portuguese by Renan Araujo:

Video about a study by Oleg Pervakov (1st prize, 7th Jenever ARVES Ty 2014):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkmUa0j7lEM&t=7s

Video about a study by Martin Minski (4th prize, 7th Jenever ARVES Ty 2014):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8gSxtyXN5A&t=101s

Video about a study coproduction by Steffen Slumstrup Nielsen & Martin Minski (Troitzky-150 MT 2017):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTySjtjruyg&t=129s

Video about a study by Martin Minski (Malyshko-105 MT 2017, task of three anti-stalemate queen sacrifices, not awarded!):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGwyAq_huvo&t=12s

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Yochanan Afek has written: Extreme Chess Tactics, where he uses many endgame studies as examples.

The book has 144 pages in 16 chapters with the following tactical themes:

Fork, Battery Play, Pinning and Unpinning, The Skewer, Deflection and Decoy, Trapping a Piece, Removing a Guard,

Line-Opening and Line Closing, Back-Rank Weakness, Pawn Promotion, Zwischenzug,

Devious Draws: Perpetual Check, Devious Draws: Stalemate, The Ultimate Goal: Mate, Combined Motifs.

Each Chapter has game-examples played by worldchampions and about 20 diagrams with exercises where a question or hint is given.

The solutions are explained very clearly.

Besides all over the board examples (a bit more than a half of the total exercises) are from world champions practice (men and women).

The rest are of players and solvers friendly endgame studies.

The book is recommended because many of the examples and exercises are taken from beautiful endgame studies !

The book starts with the famous finish of world champion Magnus Carlsen in 2016 against Kariakin (See below ...)

where he brings forward his own pattern recognition of a game played in Beltsy, 1979 between Popov and Novopashin,

where white even combined a deeper (5 moves in advance) same win.

He emphasize the importance of pattern-recognition in the process of training chess capabilities in general

and in improving tactical skills in particular.

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Improved definition of an Endgame study is given by Harold van der Heijden and added in: What is an Endgame study?

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WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP IN COMPOSING FOR INDIVIDUALS
(WCCI) 2016-18
ANNOUNCEMENT

The WFCC is inviting composers of all countries to participate in the 2016-18 WCCI. The tourney director is Dmitry Turevsky (email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it." target="_blank">This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.). The competition will be held according to the system used in the previous championship, with changes in the points 4, 5, 8 and 12 of the rules.

Time Schedule

September 2018: Announcement
January 20th 2019 12 Midnight UTC: Deadline for the submission of entries to the director
February 1st 2019: Entries and spreadsheets for the scores sent by email to the judges
June 1st 2019: Judges’ marks sent to the director
June 15th 2019: Provisional results sent to the Supervising Panel and to the WFCC president
June 30th 2019: Final results published on the WFCC site

Judges for studies:

D) Endgame studies: Costeff, Gady (ISR), Gyarmati, Peter (HUN), Minski, Martin (GER), Nielsen, Steffen Slumstrup (DEN), Rusz, Arpad (ROU).

All details at WFCC.

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP IN COMPOSING FOR INDIVIDUALS
(WCCI) 2016-18
ANNOUNCEMENT

Time Schedule

Judges for studies:

Daily task - Stalemate

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Daily task - White draws

Daily task - White wins.

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP IN COMPOSING FOR INDIVIDUALS(WCCI) 2016-18ANNOUNCEMENT

Time Schedule

Judges for studies:

Daily task - Stalemate

Login or Register

Daily task - White draws

Daily task - White wins.

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP IN COMPOSING FOR INDIVIDUALS
(WCCI) 2016-18
ANNOUNCEMENT