The endgame has always been a particularly instructive phase of chess play. It provides the perfect opportunity for understanding the potential power of each chess piece in every chess situation-from opening move to checkmate. Yet unfortunately, the endgame is often viewed as an inaccessible area of play by average players whose experience is usually limited to watching . . .
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Chess Endgame Quiz
Item #: CA0745
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Chess Endgame Quiz features 200 challenges in a multiple choice format that will help you learn to finish off your opponents!
These instructive and challenging positions are not only fun and entertaining, but will teach you how to improve your endgame! The Chess Endgame Quiz book is written by Grandmaster Larry Evans, the Dean of American Chess.
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Endgame Chess Shirt: Horsey
Item #: ENGM107-P
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This Horsey Chess Shirt is one of the staff favorites out of the Endgame Chess Shirts. This faded denim t-shirt has black and white print on the front as well as zero irritation during play.
Shirt Fitting:
These Endgame Clothing chess t-shirts have a classic athletic fit. If you want a baggier look, consider ordering a size up:
* Small: Chest width is . . .
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Endgame Chess Shirt: Trophy
Item #: ENGM102-P
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"Trophy" has a large front print using discharge inks for a super soft feel and a vintage look on a black shirt. This is a great shirt for intimidating your opponent across the board or across the bar. This is true Endgame gear!
Shirt Fitting:
These Endgame Clothing chess t-shirts have a classic athletic fit. If you want a baggier look, . . .
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Endgame Chess Shirt: Wandering King
Item #: ENGM103-P
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The "Wandering King" sports a large front print with discharge inks for a super soft feel and vintage look on a black shirt. So whether hustling chess in the park or enjoying a casual game with a foreign dignitary, you'll look like a winner in this true Endgame gear.
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These Endgame Clothing chess t-shirts have a classic . . .
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Endgame Chess Shirt: Pieces Fall
Item #: ENGM106-P
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This black chess t-shirt has beautifully dirty gray and red front discharge print. You don't need another Jonas Brothers shirt...wear some chess!!
Shirt Fitting:
These Endgame Clothing chess t-shirts have a classic athletic fit. If you want a baggier look, consider ordering a size up:
* Small: Chest width is 18" / Length is 28"
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Silman's Complete Endgame Course: From Beginner t...
Item #: SI85100
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Silman's Complete Endgame Course: From Beginner to Master, is an excellent book for the endgame.
For more than 100 years, the world's leading chess players and teachers have told their students to study the endgame. Now, for the first time, a revolutionary, richly instructive endgame book has been designed for players of all levels.
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Kopec: Essential Endgame Knowledge
Item #: DK0106
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International Master Dr. Danny Kopec, a highly regarded author and player, takes the reader through arguably the most difficult and important aspect of the game of Chess: The Endgame. The DVD covers all types of Endgames, 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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Endgame Chess Shirt: Bishop vs Night
Item #: ENGM108-P
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Bobby Fischer would not have quit chess if he had a shirt like this! Light blue discharge front print on a navy shirt...super soft and comfy.
Shirt Fitting:
These Endgame Clothing chess t-shirts have a classic athletic fit. If you want a baggier look, consider ordering a size up:
* Small: Chest width is 18" / Length is 28"
* Medium: Chest . . .
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Roman's Lab Vol 46: Most Incredible Tactics Ever ...
Item #: RO0146
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Roman's Lab DVD Vol. 46: Most Incredible Tactics Ever in the Endgame, brings you 13 of the most incredible tactical endgames ever. Some of these tactical shockers will come out of nowhere demonstrating that regardless how bad a position may look, there may be a hidden win or saving draw. It is a part of the Getting the Winning Edge in the Endgame series.
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Roman's Forum Vol 30: Mastering The Endgame in th...
Item #: RO0130
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Roman's Forum Volume 30: Mastering The Endgame Forum Series Part 2, contains five lessons on one DVD. The five topics are: Rolling with Rooks and Pawns, Shattering Minor Piece Endings, Slashing Advanced Endgame Tactics, Storming Victory in Irregular Endgames and Warring Endgame Tactics.
This five lectures contains over 4 hours of instruction by Grandmaster . . .
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Comprehensive Chess Endings with Nalimov Endgame Table...
Item #: CK0014
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Comprehensive Chess Endings with Nalimov Endgame Tablebases DVD is a fundamental program for studying endgame theory. Material is supplied by the prominent endgame theoretician and Grand Master Yuri Averbakh.
Comprehensive Chess Endings with Nalimov Endgame Tablebases DVD program includes: System Requirements: IBM-compatible PC, 64 MB memory (RAM), Hard Disk (150 . . .
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Roman's Forum Vol 29: Mastering The Endgame: Foru...
Item #: RO0129
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In Roman's Forum Vol 29: Mastering The Endgame Forum Series Part 1, Grandmaster Roman Dzindzichashvili teaches the important aspects of elementary pawn endgames including the opposition, and positions with pawn breakthroughs, outside passed pawns, potential outside passed pawns, and protected passed pawns.
In this lecture Roman discusses the general . . .
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From Middlegame Into Endgame
Item #: EV40607
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Should I simplify to an ending or not? This is one of the hardest practical questions that chess players have to answer in their own games. Grandmaster Mednis, one of the world's leading endgame experts, explains the key positional and psychological factors involved in this decision and how to proceed once a simplification has been carried out. This book will help win your . . .
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Susan Polgar's Vol 10: Learn the Endgame the Easy...
Item #: RO0310
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In Susan Polgar's Vol 10: Learn the Endgame the Easy Way -- Essential Endgames for the Intermediate to Advanced Players, Susan will bring you to the next level on your way to mastering the Endgame.
This is a great follow up DVD to Volumes 8 and 9 (Essential Basic Endgames Part 1 and 2). Susan will teach you how to play and win the more difficult Pawn, Rook, . . .
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Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual for PC
Item #: CB0225
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Russian International Master Mark Dvoretsky is perhaps the most respected chess instructor in the world today. His latest work, Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual, is sure to become a classic on one of the most difficult and subtle phases in chess. It covers all of the most important positions required for endgame mastery, from elementary king-and-pawn endings to complex rook or queen . . .
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Fritz Trainer - Endgame Mueller: Chess Endgames 9 Ches...
Item #: CB0623
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Endings with rook and minor piece against rook and minor piece occur very frequently, even more often than rook endings. But there is not much literature on them. The new endgame DVD fills this gap. The four different material constellations rook and knight vs rook and knight, rooks and opposite colored bishops and same colored bishops and rook and bishop vs rook and knight are . . .
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Practical Endgame Play - Beyond the Basics
Item #: EV45558
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Here... at long last... we have it. A new type of endgame book. A book which explains how to handle those positions that frequently occur in practical play but, curiously, are hardly ever the subject of theoretical works.Most endgame books rely upon recycling established theory on basic positions, or concentrate on fantastical studies. This one is different. Well known Grandmaster . . .
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Ten Ways to Succeed in the Endgame
Item #: OT162468
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This easy to read and understand book tells young players how to play the Endgame better. It is written in a format designed specifically for young players and is illustrated throughout with many great diagrams and cartoons to keep interest high.
Young players will learn how to make the most of the few pieces left and how to get an extra queen. They need to . . .
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Endgame Turbo 3 on DVD - Nalimov Tablebases
Item #: CB0071
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The DVD Endgame Turbo consists of 9 DVDs with endgame databases (Nalimov Tablebases). With the help of the Endgame Turbo, all fi ve- and 12 six-piece endgames (including the sophisticated and practice-oriented endgame R, P, P - R) are played with absolute perfection. Likewise, Fritz handles endgames with more than six pieces much better since the program can already access the . . .
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Fritz Trainer - Shirov: Endgame Fireworks
Item #: CB0472
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Alexei Shirov Endgame Fireworks shows that also in the endgame, it is possible to keep struggling for the full point to the very last - if you are creative and ambitious. Because even in objectively quite balanced positions, you can frequently find ways to sharpen up or complicate the fight. For the tournament player, often all that matters is to be able to pose practical problems . . .
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Endgame Workshop: Principles for the Practical Player
Item #: RU690538
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This book centers on the endgame, though it proposes that a chess game is an organic whole, with every concept related--What happens earlier explains what happens later.
The author explores essentials by mirroring his own workday lessons and treating ideas across phases as they apply. Standard positions, practical techniques, helpful paradigms, memorable . . .
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Roman's Lab 58: Taking Advantage of Common Endgam...
Item #: RO0158
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Taking Advantage of Common Endgame Mistakes Made by All Tournament PlayersOn this DVD Roman answers one of his most frequently asked questions: How to improve in the endgame.Roman takes several highly instructional examples from tournament play, these are common mistakes made by all players.
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Ten Ways to Succeed in the Opening, Middlegame & Endga...
Item #: OT162468-3
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Give young chess players a head-start with this set of three books designed particularly for those who want to learn to play chess better.
Each book in the series uses clear language and lots of fun diagrams-- with cartoons to brighten the mixto teach basic chess principles in the three parts of the game.
The books are titled Ten Ways to Succeed . . .
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Fritz Trainer - Mueller: Chess Endgames 7: Endgame Pri...
Item #: CB0574
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The new 7th volume deals with many different aspects of endgame play: the art of pawn play, weaknesses, converting an advantage, stalemate, fortresses, the art of defense and typical mistakes. But the themes are connected in various ways. If you do not master the art of pawn pawn you will end up with weaknesses. And your opponent then must know how to convert this advantage, which . . .
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Fritz Trainer - Mueller: Chess Endgames 5: Endgame Pri...
Item #: CB0550
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The first 4 DVDs in the series on the endgame cast some light on theoretical endgames and were systematically organised according to the distribution of material, starting with pawn endings and going on to deal with subjects such as the bishop pair and double rook endings. Now it is the turn of the underlying Endgame principles, which in this fifth DVD consist of activity, the . . .
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Fritz Trainer - Mueller: Chess Endgames 6: Endgame Pri...
Item #: CB0560
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Karsten Muellers endgame course has already taken its place amongst the modern classics in the study of the endgame. Whereas the first 4 DVDs of his series were systematically organised according to the distribution of material, Volume 6 continues the explanation of general endgame principles begun in Volume 5. The principles dealt with in this DVD are domination and prophylaxis, . . .
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Roman's Lab Vol 47: Most Brilliant Squeezes Ever ...
Item #: RO0147
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Roman's Lab DVD Vol. 47: Most Brilliant Squeezes Ever in the Endgame, is presented by Grandmaster Roman Dzindzichashvili. It is one volume in the Getting the Winning Edge in the Endgame Series by Roman.
This volume will demonstrate brilliant positional squeezes in the endgame. These highly instructional endgames were played on the highest level, but are very . . .
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Susan Polgar's Vol 8: Learn the Endgame The Easy ...
Item #: RO0308
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Susan Polgar's Volume 8: Learn the Endgame The Easy Way -- Essential Basic Endgames - Part 1, shows you how to play and win your Endgames. Endgames, according to Grandmaster Susan Polgar, are more essential to learn than Openings.
In Lesson 1 of this DVD, Susan will cover all the most important basic endgames for the novice player. She will teach how to . . .
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Fritz Trainer - Mueller: Chess Endgames 4: Strategical...
Item #: CB0024
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In the fourth volume of the endgame series a lot of themes with more material are included like rook and minor piece vs rook (and minor piece), rook vs two minor pieces, double rook endings, queen and knight vs queen and bishop, the bishop pair and endgame principles. Typical topics are: the so called Fischer endgame rook and bishop vs rook and knight, which occurs quite frequently . . .
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Fritz Trainer - Mueller: Chess Endgames 1: Basic Knowl...
Item #: CB0250
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Endgame theory constitutes the foundation of chess. You realize this in striking clarity once you obtain a won endgame, but in the end have to be content with a draw in the end because of a lack of necessary know-how. Such accidents can only be prevented by building up a solid endgame technique. This is Karsten Mueller's first DVD, and the grandmaster from Hamburg and endgame . . .
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Fritz Trainer - Mueller: Chess Endgames 2: Rook Endgam...
Item #: CB0251
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Endgame theory forms the basis for chess. This becomes painfully clear as soon as a player has reached a clearly won endgame, yet must finally content himself with a draw because he lacks the necessary know-how. Does this sound familiar? Then avoid such accidents and make endgames your strength, by building up a solid endgame technique. With this second volume of his endgame . . .
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Fritz Trainer - Mueller: Chess Endgames 3: Major Piece...
Item #: CB0252
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The third part of the endgame series tackles queen endings, rook against minor pieces, queen against rook and queen against two rooks. Queen endings are not nearly as mysterious as they appear at first sight. Knowing a few rules of thumb and principles will make things very much easier for you. In the case of rook versus knight or bishop, you should not only know how to draw a . . .
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Fritz Trainer - Kasimdzhanov: Endgames for Experts
Item #: CB0451
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If you want to play successful chess you must pay great attention to the endgame. Because it is only if you handle the endgame correctly that you can turn an advantageous position into a full point or save half a point from an inferior position. On this DVD, Rustam Kasimdzhanov analyzes the type of practical endgames which tournament players encounter on a daily basis. We are . . .
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How to Play Chess Endgames
Item #: GA00862
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In this companion volume to Fundamental Chess Endings, Mller 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.Using hundreds of outstanding examples from modern practice, the authors explain not only how to . . .
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Susan Polgar's Vol 9: Learn Endgames the Easy Way...
Item #: RO0309
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Susan Polgar's Volume 9: Learn Endgames The Easy Way -- Essential Basic Endgames (Part 2,) teaches how to play and win Endgames. In fact, Grandmaster Susan Polgar says that Endgames are more essential to learn than Openings. This is part 2 of the 2-part DVD series.
In Lesson 1 of this DVD, Susan will cover all the essential Rook Endgames, including: Rook vs. . . .
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Chess Endgames Combo (1-4)
Item #: CB0253
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Endgame theory constitutes the foundation of chess. You realize this in striking clarity once you obtain a won endgame, but in the end have to be content with a draw in the end because of a lack of necessary know-how. Such accidents can only be prevented by building up a solid endgame technique.
This is Karsten Mueller's four DVD set, and the grandmaster from . . .
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100 Endgames You Must Know
Item #: NEW912444
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Most players tend to neglect the Endgame. Many even dodge the Endgame by taking extreme risks in the Middlegame, simply because they feel uncertain about the final phase. But time limits have shortened, and the Endgame has to be played fast. A solid basic knowledge is vital.
There are, contrary to what most amateurs believe, relatively few endgames one must know. . . .
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Starting Out: Rook Endgames
Item #: EV443745
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Endgames with kings, rooks and pawns are by far the most common type it is estimated that rook endgames are reached in nearly one in five of all chess games. It is clear that a firm understanding of them is required in order to become self-assured in this typical phase of the game. And yet it is exactly this area in which many players drop precious points or half-points through a . . .
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A Practical Guide to Rook Endgames
Item #: RU690224
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Improve your understanding and play of these most important endings with comprehensive but clear explanations by one of the most respected chess instructors of our era.
As most chess players know, rook endgames represents approximately half of all endings reached in master games. Therefore, it is absolutely vital that chess players wishing to improve their skill . . .
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Power Play 15 - King: Practical Pawn Endgames
Item #: CB0600
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DANIEL KING: POWER PLAY 15 “Practical Pawn Endgames” The aim of this DVD is to provide you with the practical skills and knowledge that you will need to play a king and pawn endgame. Based on his own playing experience, Grandmaster Daniel King reveals what is essential knowledge, saving you time in your studies. In the first section of the DVD he takes you . . .
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Fritz Trainer - Mueller: Chess Endgames 8: Practical ...
Item #: CB0608
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Rook endings are amongst the most frequently encountered endgames there are. And it is precisely the area in which the effort put into training is particularly quickly repaid in the form of half and full points, because the knowledge of even a few rules of thumb and methods makes life a great deal easier and provides a guiding light even in complex positions. The second DVD in . . .
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Power Play 16 - King: Test Your Rook Endgames
Item #: CB0615
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DANIEL KING: POWER PLAY 16 “TEST YOUR ROOK ENDGAMES” The aim of this DVD is to provide you with the practical skills and knowledge that you will need to play a rook and pawn endgame. Based on his own playing experience, Grandmaster Daniel King reveals what is essential knowledge, saving you time in your studies. The first section of the DVD . . .
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The Greatest Ever Chess Endgames
Item #: EV446944
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Chess players are known to be obsessed by openings. However, world champions have recommended that up-and-coming players should actually begin by studying the endgame first. This is because only by studying simplified positions can one fully develop an understanding of how chess pieces work – both in isolation and with each other.It is also the endgame where the true depth . . .
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Chess Studies 2.0
Item #: CK0028
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With Chess Studies 2.0 you'll learn endgame technique with the use of breathtaking artistic endgame compositions, especially chosen for their instructive value. In it, you will find over 950 of the greatest endgame studies organized by:
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Total Chess Training II
Item #: CK0018
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This is Total Chess second compilation of popular training programs for studying all the chess game phases: opening, middlegame and endgame.
On this CD you will find five programs not included in the first Total Training package: Total Chess Training II includes more than 11,000 study examples and exercises for chess players with the ELO rating from 1700 to 2400!
Price: $68.99
Total Chess Training IV
Item #: CK0248
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Total Chess Training IV consists of five magnificent educational programs not included in the other Total Training packages. This is the forth compilation of popular training programs that covers such aspects of chess as Opening, Combinations, Attack and Defense. Altogether Total Chess Training IV includes 50,000 positions to be solved for club players with ELO rating from 1300 to . . .
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Total Chess Training
Item #: CK0017
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Total Chess Training consists of five magnificent educational programs: Chess Tactics Art 3.0; Strategy 2.0; Encyclopedia of Middlegame; Encyclopedia of Opening Blunders; Studies 2.0 with new printing possibilities, covering every phase or aspect of chess:Altogether Total Chess Training includes more than 9000 commented games and positions to be solved for chess players with ELO . . .
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Total Chess Training III
Item #: CK0226
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This is the third compilation of popular training programs on 5 CDs, that covers some aspects of chess: Tactics, Combinations, Strategy and Middlegame. On this CD you will find five programs not included in the first or second Total Training package:
Advanced Chess School
Advanced Chess School is an interactive tutorial for those inexperienced . . .
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Complete Chess Course
Item #: CK0223
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This course covers a wide range of opening, middlegame and endgame subjects. It starts off by teaching you how to checkmate the lone king and proceeds to more advanced topics, such as utilizing a material or positional advantage. This program includes 55 lessons with more than 1200 instructive examples and exercises. Improve your play by studying, practicing and solving the . . .
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Comprehensive Chess Endings
Item #: CK0012
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Comprehensive Chess Endings is a fundamental program for studying endgame theory. Material is supplied by the prominent endgame theoretician and Grand Master Yuri Averbakh.
Comprehensive Chess Endings include:
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Theory and Practice of Chess Endings
Item #: CK0029
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Theory and Practice of Chess Endings course composed by GM Alexander Panchenko. It's aim is to teach a student the intricacies of the endgame through a theoretical section, which includes over 700 games/lectures, each of them illustrating theoretical and practical endgame methods. Many of the included themes discussed for the very first time. Special training section with 300 . . .
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Secrets of Pawn Endings
Item #: GA00886
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Secrets of Pawn Endings provides a thorough course in endings with just kings and pawns, from the simple to the highly complex.
Armed with this knowledge, the reader will also be able to tackle other types of endgames with greater confidence and certainty. Many interesting and beautiful positions are included, and there are test positions for the reader to solve. . . .
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PawnSacrifice! Winning at Chess the Adventurous Way
Item #: EV445657
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In the Everyman Chess book Pawn Sacrifice! Winning at Chess the Adventurous Way, author Timothy Taylor carries out an in-depth study of this major subject. Pawn sacrifices are incredibly common in chess games, and yet they have been neglected in literature... until now.
Using an abundance of instructive examples, Taylor uncovers the secrets of pawn sacrifices, . . .
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Pocket Chess Endings
Item #: CK0049
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Pocket Chess Endings is the best program for studying the endgame on a Pocket PC. The author, well-known coach and grandmaster Panchenko, worked through this chess material for over 20 years. Many experts regard his endgame handbook as the best in the field. Thousands of chess players in Russia have used it to study the endgame and many of them are now grandmasters.
In Roman's Lab Chess DVD Video Volume 9: Comprehensive Chess Endings Part 2 GrandMaster Roman Dzindzichashvili recommends that you learn and understand the end game so you will know ahead of time whether it is won, lost or drawn.
In this video he shows you how to play for a win or draw in these types of end games: