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Everyman Chess - Chess Endings
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Survival Guide to Rook Endings
by John Emms
Publication Date: July 1999
Editorial Review:
For all chess-players - from beginners to grandmasters, and whatever their style of play - one thing is certain: rook endings will arise in a great many of their games. Yet it is precisely in this area of the game that many players give away hard-earned points, either through lack of knowledge or inadequate understanding. Previous books on the subject have been extremely technical and theoretical, and therefore of little use to the practical player. This one is different. John Emms provides the essential specific knowledge, and explains the key concepts, that will enable readers to find the right plan in most common types of rook ending. Rook endings are reached in roughly one in five of all chess games. This volume provides everything you need to know to play rook endings successfully.
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Practical Endgame Play
by Neil McDonald
Publication Date: March 1998
Editorial Review:
If one were to do a survey of club and tournament players to determine which areas of the game they feel that they are weak in, there is little doubt that most would admit to poor endgame play. However, while these players would happily spend an afternoon looking at the latest variation of their favourite opening, few spend any time at all studying the endgame. 'Endgame books are just too boring,' they would say. Not this one! Here International Master Neil McDonald provides a fresh approach to endgame, concentrating on practical aspects that all players will find useful.
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Practical Endgame Tips
by Edmar Mednis
Publication Date: March 1998
Editorial Review:
The endgame is the part of the game in which the result of the game is decided, yet few players devote as much study to it as they know they should. This book will help remedy the problem. By addressing important practical aspects of the endgame in lively fashion, Mednis draws the reader into exploring the endgame in a painless and captivating manner. Here at last is an endgame book designed to be read from cover to cover! Starting with entertaining, cautionary examples of resignations in drawn or even winning positions, Mednis moves on to discuss the key practical aspects of rook endings, minor-piece endings, and endings with a double pawn.
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Vasily Smyslov: Endgame Virtuoso
by Vasily Smyslov
Publication Date: June 1997
Editorial Review:
The endgame is a subtle phase of the game many ordinary players would like to improve. In taking the reader through over 150 instructive examples, taken mostly from his own games, Smyslov covers a very broad range of positions - and provides an excellent overall insight into the endgame as a whole. Unlike standard endgame manuals, which concentrate purely on the most basic and technical positions, this book has numerous examples with many pieces on the board - the type of endgame you are in fact most likely to reach. By learning from Smyslov's impeccable technique, readers will improve their own endgame ability - and results!
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The Final Countdown
by Herman van Riemsdijk and Willem Hajenius
Publication Date: May 1997
Editorial Review:
In this instructive book for competitive players, International Master and many times Brazilian Champion Herman van Riemsdijk and Willem Hajenius provide readers with everything they need to know about pawn endings. First published in Dutch, The Final Countdown offers a fascinating insight into one of the most deceptive areas of the game.
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Endgame Strategy
by Mikhail Shereshevsky
Publication Date: April 1994
Editorial Review:
Shereshevsky's masterful guide to endgame play is an essential work for every aspiring player. Using classic examples from grandmaster practice, together with modern illustrations and instructive games by lesser-known players, Shereshevsky lucidly explains the basic principles of the endgame: king centralization, the role of pawns, exchanging pieces, suppressing counterplay, two weaknesses, and much more.
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Chess Endings: Essential Knowledge
by Yuri Averbakh
Publication Date: May 1993
Editorial Review:
By concentrating on the basic principles the average player is not only given a working knowledge of the endgame but also a firm foundation on which to further develop his or her interest and technique in this fascinating stage of a chess game.
The author, a Russian Grandmaster and endgame expert, takes the reader from the most elementary checkmates, through the exploitation of positional and material advantage, right up to the analysis of actual endings from master play.
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Rate Your Endgame
by Edmar Mednis, Colin Crouch
Publication Date: November 1992
Editorial Review:
This instructive book for competitive players, based on Edmar Mednis' classic Practical Endgame Lessons, provides the reader with a wealth of useful instruction in endgame play, reinforced by a series of tests presented as simulations of tournament play.
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