We were lucky to have the presence of Stephen Solomon for a time, and he was very open with his comments about the endgames we were looking at. Also it was good to see strong players such as Michael Baron and Bill Jordan taking an interest and passing on their experience and judgement, so that the rest of us can learn from them.
We examined 2 of Rubinstein's classic endgames from the St Petersburg tournament of 1909. His great victory versus Lasker, and an exemplary king and pawn endgame against E Cohn. Both examples showed the importance of piece activity (including king activity) in the endgame, and we finished things off by setting up a position from the rook endgame that Rubinstein played against Spielmann, and trying to play the position in practice games. The position was set up after White's 41st move and we tried to win the position as Black a la Rubinstein
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