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For today's post, here is a simple but quite appealing endgame study, showing how solving endgame studies is a great way to improve your tactical skill and calculation!

It's White to play and win in the puzzle below. Good luck!

By the way, this harmony of the Queen and Knight is a common theme in endgame studies. Here is another, more challenging example, to test your skills. White to play and win once again:



True, there is a dual solution on move 8, but otherwise a very nice study!

I hope you enjoyed these endgame studies! For many more endgame studies in a wonderful chess community, join my free Facebook group 'Chess Endgame Studies and Compositions' today!  
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