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A Guide to Chess Endings

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This book is great for self-study on chess endings. It is clearly written, with examples drawn from actual practical play. What can I say, it is one of those rare good chess books written by an ex-world champion for aspiring chess players. Although it is no Bobby Fischer's "My 60 most memorable games", it will improve the chess amateur's approach to the endgame. Forget those new fad books by Eric Schiller and others. These books are more hot air than substance. Learn from the old masters and formulate own way of improving your own chess.

I must say at first that this book is one of the most boring endgame books one could ever read. That said, this book is excellent! The abundance of examples allow for comparison of similar but different winning/drawing techniques, and you can certainly trust Max Euwe (World Champion 1935-37).

The book is quite dry, but extremely COMPLETE and CONCISE. And that is what counts. This book improved my endgame play dramatically (To provide a reference point, I am a USCF Class A Player).

There are other, more "exciting" endgame books available, but this one deserves close study. If you're not into "hardcore" endgame study, you may want to take a look at ESSENTIAL CHESS ENDINGS by GM Howell, which is quite good and gets the point across. I also think IM Aagard's books are also excellent for taking a look at the practical play of endgames.

This book is inexpensive, methodical and no nonsense, but it omits some very important and/or basic endings. The main class of omissions is between different kinds of pieces: R vs N and/or B, Q vs R, Q vs R+P, R vs R and B (it does cover B vs N); and the basic mates. It's good didactically, but there's better. It's halfway between a reference manual and an introduction to endgames. I loved my copy and it's tattered from use, but while the old general chess instruction books (like Lasker's Manual of Chess) have not been surpassed, today's endgame books are your best bets. I recommend Jesus de la Villa's "100 Endgames You Should Know" for learning, and later, as a reference manual, something like "Fundamental Chess Endings" or "Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual."

A two author chess book. This book covers a large number of chess ending situations in detail, from the basic simple variety to more complicated endings of the piece and pawn variety. There are literally several hundred examples of game situations that you can encounter.

A very useful book for the average player.

This book is great for self-study on chess endings. It is clearly written, with examples drawn from actual practical play. What can I say, it is one of those rare good chess books written by an ex-world champion for aspiring chess players. Although it is no Bobby Fischer's "My 60 most memorable games", it will improve the chess amateur's approach to the endgame. Although this was published long time ago, it still contains timeless endgame lessons to be learned. There's nothing like learning from the old masters and then formulating your own way of improving chess.

What more can we say about a book whose author is no other than former World Champ Dutch player Dr.Max Euwe ? An exhaustive coverage of all the probable cases in end-theory with excellent annotations too. A must-buy for every serious player.The sequence of the chapters is somewhat erratic..but on the whole superb book..A `Bhagwad Gita' for all who wanna make it big in Chess.