One Knight Saves the Day: A World Champion's Favorite Studies

Learn great traps, turn losses into draws and draws into wins!

Sergei 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 one knight in the finale, yet manages to win or draw.

There are no more than six moves in most solutions, so experienced chess players can analyze the positions directly from the diagrams.

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