Secrets of Pawn Endings
Secrets of Pawn Endings

Author: Karsten Müller

Publisher: Everyman Chess

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9781857442557

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Endgames with just kings and pawns are the most basic types of endings in chess - and an understanding of them is essential for mastering complicated endings. This book provides a thorough course in pawn endings from the simple to the very complex. There are test positions for the reader to solve.

Pawn Endings
Pawn Endings

Author: Yuri Averbakh

Publisher: Ishi Press

Published: 2019-02-15

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9784871879903

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At age 97, Yuri Averkakh is the World's Oldest still living chess grandmaster and is still active in chess. In the ending, the advantage of a single "insignificant" pawn can frequently prove decisive, as that pawn inexorably pushes forward and is finally able to reach the last rank and is able to transform itself into a queen.

Secrets of Minor-piece Endings
Secrets of Minor-piece Endings

Author: John Nunn

Publisher: B. T. Batsford Limited

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9780713477276

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Following his successful volumes on rook endings and pawnless endings, John Nunn and his computer database turn their attention to the intricacies of endings with just knights, bishops, and pawns -- tricky endings of great practical importance.

Fundamental Chess Endings
Fundamental Chess Endings

Author: Karsten Müller

Publisher: Gambit Publications

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781901983531

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This is the first truly modern one-volume endgame encyclopaedia. It makes full use of endgame tablebases and analytical engines that access these tablebases; where previous authors could only make educated guesses, Muller and Lamprecht have often been able to state the definitive truth, or get much closer to it. New time-controls involve competitive games being played to a finish in one session, so it is especially important that chess-players understand the key endgame principles. This book provides comprehensive assistance for any players wishing to study the endgame. In addition to a feast of detailed analysis, the authors emphasize the practical side of endgame play, describing rules of thumb, principles, and thinking methods. Fundamental Chess Endings is both the ideal endgame reference work, and a book that can profitably and enjoyably be read from start to finish. Book jacket.

Chess Endgame Training
Chess Endgame Training

Author: Bernd Rosen

Publisher: Gambit Publications

Published: 2003-03-11

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781904600015

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This is an endgame manual with a difference. As soon as a topic has been introduced and a few basic ideas discussed, you are immediately invited to immerse yourself in the subject by solving a series of relevant positions. The solutions to these positions feature a wealth of practical advice and further discussion of endgame principles and the key theoretical points. All the main types of endgames are covered: pawn endings, minor-piece endings, rook endings and queen endings. Rosen discusses important elements in endgame strategy, such as pawn-structure, passed pawns, space advantage, breakthrough and Zugzwang. Endgames are often highly tactical, and this is reflected throughout this book in exercises that require precise calculation, and in sections devoted to typical tactical themes. There is a wealth of exercises throughout the book.

Practical Chess Endings
Practical Chess Endings

Author: Paul Keres

Publisher: Batsford Books

Published: 2018-10-26

Total Pages: 607

ISBN-13: 184994539X

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An updated edition of Paul Keres' classic endgame instructor, designed specifically for practical players with over 500 extra diagrams to facilitate learning and memorisation of critical lines of endgame play. It is an essential practical book, for all chess players, from one of the world's greatest grandmasters. Keres remained an elite grandmaster throughout his life and is widely regarded as one of the s strongest ever players not to have won the world chess champion. His book is a comprehensive guide to the precise handling of all basic endgame positions. It features logical step-by-step explanations of procedures required to obtain the best possible results from frequently occurring queen, rook, bishop, knight and pawn endings. It includes commentaries on the final stages of selected tournament games, which demonstrate the art of favourable transposition from complex to clear-cut endgames.

How to Play Chess Endgames
How to Play Chess Endgames

Author: Karsten Muller

Publisher: Gambit Publications

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781904600862

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In this companion volume to Fundamental Chess Endings, M�ller 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 conduct 'classical' endgame tasks, such as exploiting an extra pawn or more active pieces, but also how to handle the extremely unbalanced endings that often arise from the dynamic openings favoured nowadays. All varieties of endgames are covered, and there are more than 200 exercises for the reader, together with full solutions. Major topics include: * Basic Principles and Methods * Activity * Schematic Thinking * The Fight for the Initiative * Prophylaxis and Preventing Counterplay * The Bishop-Pair in the Endgame * Domination * The Art of Defence * Typical Mistakes * Rules of Thumb