Fritz Trainer - Mueller: Chess Endgames 2: Rook Endgam...
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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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Starting Out: Rook Endgames
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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
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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 16 - King: Test Your Rook Endgames
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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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Fritz Trainer - Mueller: Chess Endgames 8: Practical ...
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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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Fritz Trainer - Mueller: Chess Endgames 3: Major Piece...
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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 - Mueller: Chess Endgames 4: Strategical...
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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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100 Endgames You Must Know
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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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Susan Polgar's Vol 9: Learn Endgames the Easy Way...
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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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Fritz Trainer - Endgame Mueller: Chess Endgames 9 Ches...
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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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Rolly Toys Giant Rook Chess Piece
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This single giant chess rook piece from the giant plastic chess set can be purchased for as a replacement piece or as a decoration for your home, event, or club. Each individual piece is made of durable, hollow plastic which can be filled to weight the pieces. The rook stands 17" tall with a 9" base.
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Garden Giant Rook Chess Piece
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This single giant chess rook piece from the Garden giant plastic chess set can be purchased for as a replacement piece or as a decoration for your home, event, or club. Each individual piece is made of durable, hollow plastic which can be filled to weight the pieces. The rook stands 17" tall with a 9" base.
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Secrets of Rook Endings
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Secrets of Rook Endings is written by Grandmaster and renowned chess author John Nunn and published by Gambit Publications.
The first edition of Secrets of Rook Endings 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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Fritz Trainer - Grivas: Chess Expertise Step By Step, ...
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Efstratios Grivas: Chess Expertise STEP BY STEP Vol. 3: Rook Handling Rook handling and generally speaking endings constitute one of the most fascinating elements in chess. Rich in both tactical and strategic possibilities, they offer us the opportunity to marvel at its endless creative potential and unique ideas. Of all chess endings (pawn, queen, rook, bishop . . .
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The Survival Guide to Rook Endings
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The Survival Guide to Rook Endings is an excellent source for this important topic. 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 . . .
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Susan Polgar's Vol 8: Learn the Endgame The Easy ...
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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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Susan Polgar's Vol 10: Learn the Endgame the Easy...
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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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How to Play Chess Endgames
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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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Chess Endgames Combo (1-4)
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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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The Greatest Ever Chess Endgames
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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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Fritz Trainer - Kasimdzhanov: Endgames for Experts
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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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Power Play 15 - King: Practical Pawn Endgames
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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 1: Basic Knowl...
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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 7: Endgame Pri...
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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...
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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...
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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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Secrets of Pawn Endings
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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. . . .
In Roman's Chess DVD Lab Volume 8: Comprehensive Chess Endings Part 1 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.
These lessons by Roman will help you determine whether you should go into the endgame or avoid it.