Of course, everybody is going to have their own opinion. But for my money, the best endgame will always be Spassky-Fischer 1972, game 13.
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Well, I like Kasparov vs. Karpov 3. round (Moscow, 1984). Nice zugzwang!
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Bo
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varelse1 wrote:
Of course, everybody is going to have their own opinion. But for my money, the best endgame will always be Spassky-Fischer 1972, game 13.
That is an incredible endgame, so many twists and turns. Wow!
I never remember the name, but this is an actual endgame. Maybe not the best, but IMO the most beautiful ever, even if you include studies. Spoiler in white characters below, solve the puzzle first.
It was analyzed as a draw in a chess journal after c8=Q, then one of the readers noticed that actually it is a win if you promote to a rook - so that makes maybe one out of ten possible positions where K+R against K+R is where no king is in check winning.
Good one Irontiger. I messed up the *censored to protect the innocent* though.
varelse1 wrote:
Of course, everybody is going to have their own opinion. But for my money, the best endgame will always be Spassky-Fischer 1972, game 13.
Ha... as soon as I saw the words 'best endgame', I thought "that Fischer-Spassky one with the 3 passed pawns and the rook stuck on g8". Glad to see it was the first reply!
Irontiger wrote:
I never remember the name, but this is an actual endgame. Maybe not the best, but IMO the most beautiful ever, even if you include studies. Spoiler in white characters below, solve the puzzle first.
It was analyzed as a draw in a chess journal after c8=Q, then one of the readers noticed that actually it is a win if you promote to a rook - so that makes maybe one out of ten possible positions where K+R against K+R is where no king is in check winning.
That one's classic. I studied it years ago, and for some reason I never forgot it.
It's called the Saavedra position. Very famous, and very tricky.
hi, everybody. I was just wondering the other day that there are so many good endgame players, but which is the greatest end game of all times ??