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 the most important positions required for endgame mastery, from elementary king-and-pawn endings to complex rook or . . .
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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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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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Winning Chess Endings
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Good books about endgames for beginners are few and far between. Winning Chess Endings is a great one - a gripping introduction to what you need to know to win chess endings, taught by American Grandmaster Yasser Seirawan. His entertaining, easy-to-understand style, incisive stories and insiders advice will help you develop a solid grasp of proven principles that you can apply with . . .
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Common Sense in Chess
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Dr. Laskers original text on opening play, attack, defense, endgame, with analyses of games by Morphy, Steinitz, Tarrasch, Dr. Lasker.
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Winning the Won Game
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All players who aspire to chess mastery need to learn the techniques for winning a won game: that means they must better recognize the positional advantages they already have and know how to use them to get closer to victory. The examples laid out here will help them do exactly that. Each one comes from the most brilliantly played games at the Women's and Men's United . . .
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Silman's Complete Endgame Course: From Beginner t...
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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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Chess Endgame Quiz
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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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The Art of the Checkmate
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The Art of the Checkmate, by Georges Renaud and Victor KahnIs, is a Dover Publication which takes you thorough the classification of 23 mating situations, including Legal's pseudo-sacrifice, the double check, smothered mate, Greco's mate, the Corridor mate, and many others.
Learn from 127 games by Tartakower, Janowski, Rubinstein, Blackburne and others, . . .
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Practical Endgame Play - Beyond the Basics
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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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Chess Endings: Essential Knowledge
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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 . . .
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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From Middlegame Into Endgame
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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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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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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. . . .
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How to Force Checkmate
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The Dover Publication of How to Force Checkmate provides 300 practical immediate checkmates that your opponents cannot escape--all selected from master play.
It has 300 diagrammed positions, subdivided into situations of mate in one, two, or three moves and it introduces you to a vast array of checkmate situations. For study, as entertainment during leisure . . .
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Secrets of Pawnless Endings
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After the success of Secrets of Rook Endings, John Nunn turns his attention towards endgames without pawns. These occur surprisingly often in practice and are extremely tactical in nature.
This book unites man and machine in the search for ultimate answers. The computer databases created by Ken Thompson, formerly of Bell Laboratories, can state with certainty the . . .
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Capablanca's Best Chess Endings
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There are 60 complete games in Capablanca's Best Chess Endings --annotated throughout-- that emphasize the Cuban master's elegant, classic, accurate, lethal endgame play against Alekhine, Lasker, Marshall, Nimzowitsch, and Reti,--the best in chess.
These are real games from match and tournament play, with endings that seem like long-contemplated works of . . .
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Better Chess for Average Players
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Better Chess for Average Players is a clear, straightforward guide by noted expert coaches that takes you through the fundamentals of attacking and positional play, as well as how to approach the endgame.
Crucial processes of assessing positions and choosing moves are examined in depth. It also helps you know how to cope with difficult positions and . . .
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Master Checkmate Strategy
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Master Checkmate Strategy is easy to read and right to the point. In just one reading you will learn how to checkmate opponents using crushing attacks and brilliant sacrifices.
Basic mates--as well as advanced ones--are revealed in this no-nonsense book. Some of the mates detailed are
Each concept is fully explained in easy-to-understand language with . . .
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True Combat Chess: Winning Battles over the Board
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International Master and former US Open Champion Timothy Taylor draws upon his wealth of personal experience to offer an instructive and entertaining account of how to improve your understanding of chess and your results.
This book is awash with invaluable advice and helpful tips on all stages of the game - opening, middlegame and endgame. Taylor emphasizes the . . .
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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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Understanding Chess Endgames
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One of the world's foremost chess writers provides everything you need to know about chess endgames! Assuming no specialized endgame knowledge, John Nunn presents 100 key endgame concepts, and explains how they are used to win games or save difficult positions.
He covers all the main types of endgames and typical thinking methods, and so equips readers with . . .