Rate Your Endgame

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Summary: One of the best endgame books
Review: For most chessplayers, even very strong ones, studying the endgame is painfully boring. This book is one of the few genuinely entertaining and instructive books available on this subject. The book concentrates on practical endgame situations, rather than bore the reader with such stuff as mate with B and N, which one may be required to perform once every five thousand games or so.

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Summary: A superb, instructive book!
Review: This book is a must-read for anyone who knows the basic mates and understands the opposition who doesn't know what to study next in this all-important phase of the game. The exercises are enjoyable, tough, thought-provoking, and instructive, and working through them is almost like having a master-level teacher at your side.

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Summary: Good effort
Review: This book is good but flawed as it is extremely difficult to cover up the pages and take the tests without seeing the answers as you follow along the game. You are supposed to guess the moves that were made in grandmaster endgames fron the 1970's. This book contains many useful essential practical examples and does teach much about endgame fundamentals, but would not be my first choice if I was to own just a single endgame book. I also found an ommision in analysis of an endgame by the author, who missed an alternative win that is not even mentioned in the book. So much for chess as an absolute art.

Rating:
Summary: Good effort
Review: This book is good but flawed as it is extremely difficult to cover up the pages and take the tests without seeing the answers as you follow along the game. You are supposed to guess the moves that were made in grandmaster endgames fron the 1970's. This book contains many useful essential practical examples and does teach much about endgame fundamentals, but would not be my first choice if I was to own just a single endgame book. I also found an ommision in analysis of an endgame by the author, who missed an alternative win that is not even mentioned in the book. So much for chess as an absolute art.