Practical Chess Endings

by Irving Chernev

Book Overview

300 practical endgame situations, ranging from very simple to masterpieces by Capablanca, Reti, Tarrasch, Lasker, more. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 048622208X
• ISBN13: 9780486222080
• Release Date: June 1969
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Practical Chess Endings

This book is a must for any players chess library. The problems are concise and wonderful in their exquisite details.

An Excellent Tool to Improve your Endgame

Anyone no matter their skill level can benefit from this book. The author describes the techniques employed in the most important and typical endgame situations, presenting more than 300 positions that clearly describe how a good player will solve the problems encountered in each one of them. A good part of the book is devoted to king and pawn endings, but also enough coverage is given to endgame positions where the knight, the bishop, the root, and the queen play the important role of helping promote a pawn or acting to accomplish a mating solution. As the author states "the book is designed to improve the skills of the practical player who is interested in wining the ending clearly, simply and efficiently." I bought this book as part of a used chess book collection on an auction, and I was not disappointed at all with this title. The book systematically showed me how to think and analyze typical positions that as a matter of fact I have encountered during actual play. The book uses descriptive notation, but I guess this is just a matter of preference and it actually doesn't affect the quality and usefulness of the information presented. Nevertheless you should take this into account in case you prefer algebraic notation.

Great book for practicing endings

This book is another great Chernev classic, at the affordable Dover price.You are basically given a winning position and then Chernev outlines how to win with the position.--It starts off with the basic endings, and then gets more complex as the book continues. I would recommend setting up the board and practicing these endings with your chess buddy. Your endings will improve tremendously.

An excellent book!

Though it does have the ditraction of being written in descriptive notation (i.e. P-K4), this is compensated by the instruction given wonderful endgames, particularly for beginners. With sections on pawns and combined piece play, this is a wonderful beginning or compendium towards the study of the endgame.

classic textbook on the endgame

The reader gets 300 diagrams for the beginner or expert.There are practical basic endings that everyone should know and beautiful studies all designed to raise the readers understanding of chess and the endgame. One diagram per page makes it easy to read. This dover book is well bound and will last. Anyones appreciation of chess would be inhanced by owning this book.