Chess Endings Made Simple : How to Approach the Endgame with Confidence

Most chess-players are all too painfully aware of how many half-points and even full points they squander due to poor endgame play. However, they tend to imagine that improving their endgame play involves a massive amount of study of dry technical positions, and prefer to spend their time on other aspects of the game, perhaps in the unrealistic hope of avoiding endgames entirely. In this book, Ian Snape helps them to tackle endgames with more confidence, so that they look forward to playing them, and are more willing to simplify when this is the best course of action. The first half of the book discusses the areas of endgame theory that are most relevant to practical success. The second half features 100 exercises for the reader to solve, together with full solutions. All the exercises are taken from real games.

Chess Endings Made Simple : How to Approach the Endgame with Confidence

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Domination in 2,545 Endgame Studies

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Domination in 2,545 Endgame Studies

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Endgame Magic (Batsford Chess Book)

An endgame study offers chess tactics in their purest form; there are no wasted pieces and only one solution. This introduction to endgame studies avoids baffling jargon and each study is illustrated by three diagrams. It is designed to be read without a chess set, on a train, bus or aeroplane.

Endgame Magic (Batsford Chess Book)

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King in the Endgame

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King in the Endgame

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Winning Endgame Technique

Two leading grandmasters study a variety of typical practical endgame situations. They provide strategic guidance which is aimed at club and postal players of all levels of experience, either when playing or when deciding what type of endgame to aim for. The authors tackle fundamental issues such as the occasions when a bishop is a better piece than a knight, and those when rook and pawn are a match for two minor pieces. Beliavsky and Mikhalchisin analyze the endgame techniques of many top players, including Kasparov, Karpov, Fischer, Short, Speelman, Dvoretsky, Yusupov, Shirov, Timman and Ivanchuk.

Winning Endgame Technique

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Endgame Virtuoso Anatoly Karpov: The Exceptional Endgame Skills of the 12th World Champion

With his fine endgame technique Anatoly Karpov managed to win positions which nearly everybody else assessed as a draw. This book takes, for the first time, a closer look at his endgame skills, which have always remained something of an enigma, explaining the finer points better than Karpov himself has ever cared to do. A highly instructive and entertaining book.

Endgame Virtuoso Anatoly Karpov: The Exceptional Endgame Skills of the 12th World Champion

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