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Square of the Pawn Endgame Puzzle
This one requires some deep calculation. King and pawn endgames are so great for visualizing.

John Hendrick
Oct 22, 20191 min read


Geometry of the Chessboard: Reti Endgame Puzzle
It is white to move. It looks impossible to achieve a draw here. Black's pawn is way out of the white's king's range. It seems white has to either try to queen his c pawn, which looks impossible or chase down black's h pawn, which also looks impossible.

John Hendrick
Oct 14, 20191 min read


Nonintuitive Sacrifice
The following position is from Ding Liren versus Wesley So in 2016. I was studying the Catalan Opening, and I came across this incredible position. I felt like white had to have some kind of attack, but Stockfish said no. After forcing Stockfish to think for several minutes, it finally came up with this wonderful solution.

John Hendrick
Oct 7, 20191 min read
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