Politicalmusic's Daily Endgame Puzzle: August 18, 2009

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Endgame Puzzle: August 18, 2009

"If you like the puzzles . . . track me :-)."

These are not your typical endgame puzzles

Can you name this great endgame player?

Click the picture for the puzzle

Hint: Bulgarian Super GM.  The Highest Rated Chessplayer in the World.  Will play for the World Championship against Anand in 2010.

Quote: " I haven't got a favorite piece...all of them are, they are like my children and I take care of them."

JULY

• Endgame Puzzle July 13, 2009 (Vassily Ivanchuk)
• Endgame Puzzle July 14, 2009 (Lev Aronian) 
• Endgame Puzzle July 15, 2009 (Vladimir Kramnik) Solved by GlennB
  
• Endgame Puzzle July 16, 2009 (Wang Yue) Solved by h777
  
• Endgame Puzzle July 17, 2009 (Leinier Dominguez) Solved by Drumdaddy
  
• Endgame Puzzle July 18, 2009 (Hikaru Nakamura) Solved by Avneet and Crazy_Attack
  
• Endgame Puzzle July 19, 2009 (Magnus Carlsen) Solved by Avneet
• Endgame Puzzle July 20, 2009 (Anish Giri) Solved by Rael
• Endgame Puzzle July 21, 2009 (Peter Leko) Solved by oinquarki, Feynman and Chess_Kabob
• Endgame Puzzle July 22, 2009 (Mikhail Tal) Solved by Rain X Dancer and Sam_Musel
• Endgame Puzzle July 23, 2009 (Jose Capablanca) Solved by Avnett
• Endgame Puzzle July 24, 2009 (Paul Morphy) Solved by Gramps33
• Engame Puzzle July 25, 2009 (Alexander Alekhine) Solved by Wicksta85
• Endgame Puzzle July 26, 2009 (Boris Spassky) Solved by Tajomoen
• Endgame Puzzle July 27, 2009 (Bobby Fischer) Solved by Tajomoen
• Endgame Puzzle July 28, 2009 (Anatoly Karpov) Solved by dc1985
• Endgame Puzzle July 29, 2009 (Garry Kasparov) Solved by rainxdancer
• Endgame Puzzle July 30, 2009 (Dmitry Jakovenko) Solved by Mikyz
• Endgame Puzzle July 31, 2009 (Teimour Radjabov) Solved by h777

August

• Endgame Puzzle August 1, 2009 (Alexander Morozevich) Solved by h777
• Endgame Puzzle August 4, 2009 (Jonathan Rowson) Solved by therobz
• Endgame Puzzle August 5, 2009 (Jan Smeets) Solved by h777
• Endgame Puzzle August 6, 2009 (Fabiano Curuana) Solved by h777
• Engame Puzzle August 7, 2009 (Wesley So) Solved by h777 and NM Depressnyak
• Endgame Puzzle August 8, 2009 (David Howell) Solved by h777
• Endgame Puzzle August 10, 2009 (Koneru Humpy) Solved by Andrewjacob
• Endgame Puzzle August 11, 2009 (Maxime Vachier- Lagrave) Solved by Marvellosity
• Endgame Puzzle August 12, 2009 (Gata Kamsky) Solved by andrewjacob
• Endgame Puzzle August 13, 2009 (Etienne Bacrot) Solved by avneet
• Endgame Puzzle August 14, 2009 (Parimarjan Negi) Solved by andrewjacob
• Engame Puzzle August 15, 2009 (Alexandra Kosteniuk) Solved by andrewjacob
• Endgame Puzzle August 16, 2009 (Curt Von Bardeleben) Solved by Icee

topalov is the man above, he is gonna get a nice whooping from anand!

I'm cheering for Topalov.  It's time for Anand to step down :-).  Topalov's tactics and Anand supersolid prep and form will be very exciting :-)

step down? gotta justify that one!

Yes.  I will be cheering for Topalov, but I don't think he is as strong as Anand once Anand is in form.