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Improve Your Endgame Play

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This is an ideal book for an introduction to endgames. I found it hit the perfect sweet spot for me in several ways. The right balance between problems and text, the progression from simple to a bit more complex, and explanations of general principles and some calculation. Often chess books just make me laugh, with their 500 page multi-volume sets and endless variations. I don't want to be Kasparov, and who's got that sort of time. I play because it's fun, and this was a good chess book. I learned a lot, improved as a player, and enjoyed myself doing it.

Flear does a good job with the right amount of text vs notation balance. Infact he never leaves you hanging, explaining, in detail, everything. He never assumes the reader will know the next move, yet never so simple that its boring. As a 1600 player I found this book to be exactly right for me, with some review and some new. I especially like the "TIPS" and Comments about Understanding the concepts of the endgame positions, rather than remembering the moves. This book covers most everything, more so than two other endgame books I've read. I've not read it all but it appears better than Padolfini's endgame course which is probably geared more towards a 1300-1400 player. I think I paid about $4 plus shipping for this book and based on dollar paid, very pleased.

This book is good but i think you can learn this stuff better, from a program like chessmaster the explanation is good but you kind of get tired in chess-master this doesn't happen.