Tkachenko: Bishop and Knight Save the Day OHNE BILD Stalemate motifs

Stalemate motifs

Sielecki has created a reliable set of opening lines for chess players of almost all levels

In the second volume of the book “A Practical Repertoire for Black with Nf6

PART FOUR 1

The authors present a series of case studies on “players who have stayed strong into their forties

Tkachenko: Bishop and Knight Save the Day OHNE BILD Stalemate motifsSergei Tkachenko, a member of the Ukrainian team that won the 5th World Chess Composition Tournament in 1997 and which came second in 2000, 2004, 2013, and 2017, has collected 100 studies whose common theme is that white ends up with just a bishop and knight in the finale, yet manages to win or draw. There are no more than six moves in almost all solutions, so experienced chess players can analyze the positions directly from the diagrams. Newbies to