My 300 Positions

According to my coach GM Rashid Ziatdinov, in order to become a master, you must have a selection of 300 positions memorized. This selection should be chiefly your own collection of positions and not of others though there are many basic king, pawn endings and king, pawn rook endings that should be in your base of 300 positions. GM Ziatdinov has given 256 of them in his book GM-Ram, Thinkers Press 2000, leaving the student of chess to only come up with 44 more positions. Below, you will find some of the ones I have added to my base of 300 positions.

Position #37

White to Move:

1.Nb6+ cxb6 2.Kg3 Kb7 3.Kf4 Kc7 4.Ke5 Kd7 5.Kd5 Kc7 6.Ke6! wins