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Domination in 2,545 Endgame Studies

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This book is a goldmine of artistic endgame studies by various authors, including Kasparyan himself. Each one of the 2545 items is packed with chess logic and valuable insights on how to force your adversary to lose material. Many positions that the average player would be happy to bring to a draw are presented as winning, with stunning manoeuvres leading to the unexpected capture of one or more of the opponent's pieces. The content is very well organized, so that you can look up specific scenarios according to which pieces are involved (for example, two knights trap bishop, rook and bishop trap rook, and so on). A real find.

his book Domination in 2,545 endgame studies has been by my side for 30 years its virtually inexaustable

Its common knowledge that endgame study produces the most improvement in chess-but what about tactics/position play? Well, these studies are a sort of hybrid of all three of these areas. And there are so many that if you did 5 a day, it would still take years to get through the book, and boy are they tough. Excellent chess training.

In this book consists of 2545 chess positions that you need to solve. These positions are divided into sections like "minor piece traps minor piece", and for each of these sections one or more examples are given on a how this is done. For each example you have the relevent position numbers indicated. Once you know the example keeping this in mind you are expected to solve the positions. Looks easy but the positions are really hard and interesting. I got this book as a gift in1981 and I have only done around 50 positions from it. In my opinion this is a must have book and I am amazed that there are only two other reviews of this book.

This is a excellent book. I recommend it. The endgame study is very important in chess excellence!!!