Here is help for those who are tired of studying endgames that never come up in real life! Why is it that most amateur chess players love opening and middle game tactics but hate endgames and why do they usually look at only a couple of pages in any chess endgame theory book they own? Enjoying the entertainment of endgame tactics, and (at least for the moment) forgetting about theoretical positions that seem distant from everyday practice, is the first step towards mastering this important part of the game.
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"A fantastic book for all club players. Very useful." -- Jules Welling in Schaaknieuws
"An irresistible collection of more than 1,100 endgame tricks and traps. A superb book, highly instructive." -- Paul Motwani in The Scotsman
"An irresistible collection of more than 1,100 endgame tricks and traps. A superb book, highly instructive." -- Paul Motwani in The Scotsman
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31 of 34 people found the following review helpful:
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Excellent & Amusing!,
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This review is from: Endgame Tactics: A Comprehensive Guide to the Sunny Side of Chess Endgames (Paperback)
"Endgame Tactics" is an amusing romp through the part of a chess game that most of us agree is the most boring. Van Perlo presents many tactical positions, organized according to the remaining pieces, displaying tactical motifs. Van Perlo also engages the reader with a level of banter uncharacteristic for a chess book, making "Endgame Tactics" much more enjoyable that those typical dry chess tomes that we are all too familiar with. Although there are better books to read if you want to actually learn proper endgame technique, this book is still worth reading. You will obtain a tactical perspective into endgames that I have not seen anywhere else.
19 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
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The most enjoyable endgame book I've ever read,
By Hal Bogner "www.ChessMagnetSchool.com" (Half Moon Bay, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Endgame Tactics: A Comprehensive Guide to the Sunny Side of Chess Endgames (Paperback)
I'm well into this book, and it's great fun. I've always loved tactics books, and this is the first endgame book I've ever encountered with this approach. Middlegame tactics books like this helped me reach master level; I wonder how far an endgame tactics book could have helped me go? I never found endgames as much fun to study (til now). :-)
Probably one of the 25 best chess books I've seen in over 30 years. I highly recommend it to players and fans at any level! PS - This book has been named the English Chess Federation Book of the Year 2006. There's a great discussion of Endgame Tactics on Mig Greenguard's Daily Dirt chess blog, if you search for the book title there, too.
15 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
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A good book could have been better.,
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This review is from: Endgame Tactics: A Comprehensive Guide to the Sunny Side of Chess Endgames (Paperback)
This book got the English chess federation's book of the year award. This book is not an exhaustive manual but focuses on endgames that occur frequently in practice. The positions chosen are entertaining and educational; the positions were checked using Fritz, a strong computer chess program; that's the good part about the book. Unfortunately, the positions with 6 pieces or less were not checked with tablebases which play endgames *perfectly*. For example, diagram 287 on page 135 gives white's move 1 b6? as an error. This is not true. The win is still there until 4 Kb3? which should be drawn but then black plays 4...Rh3+? handing the win back to white. The final position is still a white win which the book claims is a theoretical draw. Perlo says "I refer you to the manuals". He should have said "I refer you to the tablebases". If the editor Peter Boel had taken this one last step the book could have been even better.
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