Black Resigned right after White played his first move in this position.

This is our third and final example of GM Milan Vidmar of yesteryear. He polishes off Teichmann at Carlsbad in 1907.

Here is our second Vidmar finish—a mate in six. When I first saw this position, it looked like a composed problem set up, but it happened in a real game: Vidmar-Tarrasch, Nuremberg, 1906.

Grandmaster Milan Vidmar, as White, found himself threatened with mate at h2 by a future world champion, Dr. Max Euwe, but he came up with a saving mating attack.

We’ve been talking about the wrong square color bishop allowing the weaker side to draw in rook pawn endings. This study by von Holzhausen, 1910, is a gem for teaching some of the intricacies because White can draw here ...Read More

This is one of the most useful studies you can know. Everyone "knows" that a rook pawn that wants to queen needs a bishop of the color of the queening square, otherwise it's a draw because the king can sit on the queening ...Read More