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Approach every endgame with a winning strategy!
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A revolutionary book on chess endgames, designed to ensure that players understand everything they need to know at their rating levels, and prepare them to advance to the next.
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John Nunn presents 250 challenging positions where your task is to find a cunning way to win or draw.
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The first edition of this book ushered in a new era in chess publishing. It was the first book based on computer-generated position databases that are guaranteed to provide the actual result of a position.
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Shereshevsky's masterful guide to endgame play is an essential work for every aspiring player.
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One of the world's foremost chess writers provides everything you need to know about chess endgames!
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"A most enjoyable and instructive work, with an index of endgame themes which allows the student to concentrate on Karpov’s abilities in specific types of endgame." - John Saunders in British Chess Magazine
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In this companion volume to Fundamental Chess Endings, Müller and Pajeken focus on the practical side of playing endgames. They cover all aspects of strategic endgames, with particular emphasis on thinking methods, and ways to create difficulties for opponents over the board.
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This endgame book is for intermediate players or higher.
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Based on master teacher Pandolfini's private course for his students.
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Armed with this knowledge, the reader will also be able to tackle other types of endgame with greater confidence and certainty.
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Just the Facts! boils down all essential endgame wisdom into one volume.
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Mark Dvoretsky is regarded as the leading chess coach in the world, and the first book in his School of Chess Excellence series is devoted to the endgame.
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In this book, Ian Snape helps us to tackle endgames with more confidence, so that we look forward to playing them, and are more willing to simplify when this is the best course of action.
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Forget those books which just recycle established theory. Forget those books which concentrate on fantastical studies. Grandmaster and endgame expert Glenn Flear has created an in-depth book of all endgames which feature either two pieces for each side, or two pieces against one - an essential area of the game that has never before been comprehensively covered in one volume.
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Since the first edition of this book was published, the databases for many six-man endings have been created, resulting in some surprising and paradoxical discoveries. The coverage has therefore been expanded to include the most interesting features of these endings.
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GM Flear explains the fundamental principles which must be mastered. Taking examples from his own games and those of other players, he shows how drawn positions can be converted into victories and lost positions saved at the last moment.
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How should a chessplayer think in the endgame? How is the game affected once there are just a few pieces left on the board? GM Flear provides the answers in a book which will guide the reader along the path to enlightenment.
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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,
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Practical Endgame Play – Mastering the Basics is a comprehensive guide to all fundamental chess endings, and a godsend for those looking to improve their endgame play. Crucially, the emphasis is just as much on practical play as it is on theoretical understanding. Whenever an idea is introduced, Grandmaster Efstratios Grivas immediately illustrates it with a number of entertaining and instructive examples, a considerable number of which are drawn from his own over-the-board experiences.
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