We will be posting a Weekly Study, courtesy of Yochanan Afek, Grandmaster for composing endgame studies. These challenging positions are designed to stimulate (and improve upon!) your creativity, depth of calculation, pattern recognition and pure imagination.
Surprising that the white rook remains in the vicinity of the black forces when you expect it to move to a safe place! For the rest, it is about finding the checkmate pattern. Helps having seen it before!
We will be posting a Weekly Study, courtesy of Yochanan Afek, Grandmaster for composing endgame studies. These challenging positions are designed to stimulate (and improve upon!) your creativity, depth of calculation, pattern recognition and pure imagination.
V. Korolkov, 1976
Enjoy!