Hi all,

I have decided to start a new series on chess studies.
Chess studies are an excellent way to train your thinking, visualization and calculation skills.

A chess study is a chess puzzle where White either wins or draws.
It normally resembles a position from a practical game of chess which is the greatest advantage of a chess study over it’s somewhat more artificial brother the chess problem.

In the title of the post I will mention the composer of the study and the year in which it was composed.

As always, leave your comments below!

[pgn_compat]
[Event “?”]
[Site “?”]
[Date “2014.08.19”]
[Round “?”]
[White “Jindrich Fritz, 1965.”]
[Black “White plays and draws”]
[Result “*”]
[Annotator “Waldemar Moes,Better Your Chess”]
[SetUp “1”]
[FEN “5k1K/3R2pp/5qP1/8/8/8/8/8 w – – 0 1”]
[PlyCount “3”]

1. Rf7+ Qxf7 {this is the only move really.} (1… Ke8 $4 {simply loses:} 2.
Rxf6 gxf6 3. g7 $18 {and White promotes.}) 2. gxh7 {and stalemate is
unavoidable!} *
[/pgn_compat]

PGN Notation:

[Event “?”]
[Site “?”]
[Date “2014.08.19”]
[Round “?”]
[White “Jindrich Fritz, 1965.”]
[Black “White plays and draws”]
[Result “*”]
[Annotator “Waldemar Moes, Better Your Chess”]
[SetUp “1”]
[FEN “5k1K/3R2pp/5qP1/8/8/8/8/8 w – – 0 1”]
[PlyCount “3”]1. Rf7+ Qxf7 {this is the only move really.} (1… Ke8 $4 {simply loses:} 2.
Rxf6 gxf6 3. g7 $18 {and White promotes.}) 2. gxh7 {and stalemate is
unavoidable!} *