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Two beautiful studies expanding on Loman's move
Leonid Kubbel, 1924 (White to move)
Roberts Skuja and Ernests Gize, 1934 (White to move)
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The Saavedra Position (1895)
White to play:
See Tim Krabbé's Chess Curiosities for the delightful story of how this study came to be. (Note: chessgames.com user MissScarlett claims "Barbier didn't misremember the incorrect Fenton-Potter position; he likely copied it from the chess column published in the <Newcastle Courant> on Saturday, March 9th 1895 (four days before Potter's death), where in similar fashion to Barbier, the finish to the game is recounted, down to the crowd of spectators and Potter's offer to demonstrate the missed win.")
Also, according to chessgames.com, the original game that eventually resulted in the discovery of the Saavedra was played at pawn odds, with Black lacking an f-pawn.
A chess study is typically labeled with a composer's first initial (followed by last name and year of composition) rather than their first name. I always found this arbitrary and unnecessary if not pretentious, so I feel a little vindicated that the ARVES website gives his first name as "Fernando," while Siegfried Hornecker's book Weltenfern gives "Francisco" (as well as "Fernando," on the same page) If there is indeed a reason for the initial being used, please enlighten me!
A spurious zugzwang stamp…
"In this 'Capablanca - Lasker', […] there followed 1.Nxc7 Nxc7 2.Ra8+!! Nxa8 3.Kc8 and Black resigned.
The reason for the [quotation marks] is that a game with that ending can be found nowhere, and that the position of the stamp, no matter how often it has been reprinted as 'Capablanca - Lasker', has never really occurred. What did happen is, according to Dale Brandreth in 'The Unknown Capablanca', that in 1914 Capablanca and Lasker met in Berlin, where they played a short blitz match (I wonder what sort of blitz, I can't really picture them demolishing clocks), won by Capablanca with 6½-3½. The stamp-endgame arose in the post-mortem of one of those games, and must be seen as a joint composition by the two world champions. Lasker then published it in his column in Der Vossische Zeitung, apparently worded in a way that left room for him to become the loser." - Tim Krabbé, Open Chess Diary (bold text mine)
Zugzwang
"Of all chess situations, Zugzwang is the one most likely to stimulate mirth." - Gerald Abrahams
"Just as sacrifices are attractive because possession of material is usually an advantage, the appeal of Zugzwang is that possession of the move is almost invariably desirable. Difficult to define and translate, Zugzwang is, in all its possible forms, easy to enjoy." - Edward Winter
Otto Jung - Szabados, Venice 1952 (White to play)
31.Bxg7! Rxh4 32.Qxh4+ Kxh4 33.Bf6+! g5 34.Bc3!!
"Now, what with the queen saddled with the double duty of guarding e1 and keeping the g-pawn pinned, 4…Qf2 was absolutely forced, and after 5 Be5! Black might as well have resigned. He just tried to exploit White’s extreme time-pressure by 5…Qg1+ 6 Kxg1 g4 7 Bf6+ Kg3 8 Be5+ Kh4 9 f4 g3 10 Bf6+ Kg4 11 Bg5 Resigns." - Assiac
The Immortal Zugzwang (sic) Game
I accidentally stayed up all night annotating this mind-boggling rook ending from GM-RAM, so here's my work.
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A beautiful study by Luigi Centurini from the mid-19th century.
[IM Jeremy Silman lists the year as 1847 (Silman's Complete Endgame Course), but Wikipedia says 1856, with an unclear citation.]
