A Nice Finishing Touch.

Niobium Playoff Rd 1. A dubious opening choice by Black. Check out milesotoole's winning move. Very pretty.

Good Game By livis

Tellurium Playoff Rd 1. Very interesting.

Solution To White To Play

This is a endgame study composed by V. Sokov, 1940. My comments are based on the notes of IM Igor Khmelnitsky from his modern day classic book "Chess Exam and Training Guide".
The hint in the previous post was the mention of the key square b4 for the Black King. If he can control it then he can make a draw. But White has a solution to break this control.

Another Good Game From LittleWarrior

Bohrium Playoff Rd 1. LittleWarrior took advantage of his opponents confused play.

Solution To White To Play

The problem is that White's King is too far away to help stop the two passed pawns. The Rook can't do it alone. But if you think it's a draw then you are wrong. White does have a win here. But before I give the solution I will show the reasonable moves that don't work. But there are hints in the notes, so if you haven't figured it out yet, keep trying. I'll give the winning line tomorrow.

White to move. What result do you expect? What is White's best move?

Great Game By ben622

Technetium Playoff Rd 1. ben622 was a 200 point rating underdog here. A really fine game.

Playoff Games

Niobium Playoff Rd 1. Five Element teams made the playoffs. I usually don't post losses by our players But this is very interesting and instructive.

Good Win By Krysto

Rubidium Rd 6. Black made some bad choices. Krysto made him see the error of his ways.

Toukon Wins

Selenium Rd 6. A couple of interesting moments. One move 44 Black could have killed White's Bishop. Black then missed a mating net and let White off the hook. Near the end it's a complete draw but White returned the error.