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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 794 EAN: 9781904600886 ISBN: 1904600883 Label: Gambit Publications Manufacturer: Gambit Publications Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 287 Publication Date: 2008-04 Publisher: Gambit Publications Studio: Gambit Publications Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: A Gambit re-issue of the definitive modern work on pawn endings, written by the same authors as the award-winning Fundamental Chess Endings. This book provides a thorough course in endings with just kings and pawns, from the simple to the highly complex. Armed with this knowledge, the reader will also be able to tackle other types of endgame with greater confidence and certainty. Many interesting and beautiful positions are included, and there are test positions for the reader to solve. The authors follow the rigorously logical conventions introduced by John Nunn in his famous series of endgame manuals. This has necessitated a phenomenal amount of new analysis of theoretical positions to assess precisely the merits of each and every move. * A comprehensive and authoritative guide to the most fundamental type of endgame * Includes puzzle positions to test the reader's understanding * Makes use of computer software specifically geared to pawn endings * Logically organized in user-friendly fashion Average Rating:
 Rating: - An awesome pawn end game bookDespite being a novice player and owning other excellent end game books, in this book there is much material that is not out of my intellectual reach. It feels like I will be learning from this book for decades to come!! The accuracy and clarity of the text with the numerous diagrams makes the book excellent to even the weaker players. Doubtless this book has even material useful to grandmasters. Enjoy reading it, I do. Rating: - the worksThis book starts with the basic concepts of King and Pawn against King, gives a thorough tour of the situations arising with progressively more pawns, and ends with general advice about finding plans in complicated situations. The whole exposition is given in clear, logical prose supported by valuable and well-diagrammed game analyses and exercises. The authors do not shirk giving clear explanations of the basics, while there is enough advanced material to give food for thought, I suspect, to much ... Read More Rating: - Putting phase in chess.This is a rather difficult book for us, C-players, to follow. The positions have only two types of pieces, Kings and Pawns. In order to win, some Ps must reach the 6th or 7th to demonstrate to us that game is decided. The King- and Pawn-moves are single squares; therefore to achieve this goal the game must take many moves. This makes the variations of many (sometimes dozen of) moves deep. Unless we have the visual ability like the masters or grandmasters do, we need a chessboard or program to follow ... Read More Rating: - PerfectionI'm a class C player interested in seriously improving my game. My first endgame book was by Yasser Seirawan, Winning Chess Endings. I didn't really get enough out of the book's section on pawn endings. Due to this I decided to purchase this boook and I was amazed at what I could learn and how quickly. I believe this is the easiest to understand book on any aspect of chess theory I have ever read. To get the most out of this book I highly recommend playing through the positions against ... Read More Rating: - Secrets of Good BooksOk, endgame books are mostly raw facts and calculation. Accuracy is more important than writing ability. If you purchased this book, there is no doubt what you expected to take from it. When I found the first typo on the first page of chapter one I thought I made a bad purchase. I don't care about excuses...poor editing, hard to translate from German, or anything else. As I continued to read I found the book to be better than I had expected. Once I got used to the codes ... Read More 
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