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By Glenn Flear
How may still a chessplayer imagine in an endgame? How is the sport affected as soon as there are only a few items left at the board? Grandmaster Glenn Flear offers the solutions and courses the reader alongside the trail to enlightenment. utilizing a chain of examples and workouts, Flear steers the reader via the entire forms of endgame positions and subject matters. incorporated in those are matters reminiscent of checkmating styles, house merits, and promoting rules. Quiz questions can be of differing trouble and may attract all criteria of player.*All the most important endgame themes are covered*Written by way of a popular endgame expert*Ideal for membership and event avid gamers alike
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Gurevich France 1991 White to Play Can you find a way for White to draw? 61 Test Your Endgame Thinking Chapter 4: Exercise 25 D Najdorf • Vinuesa Mar del Plata 1941 Black to Play A pawn race with a twist or two. Can Black draw? Chapter 4: Exercise 26 D Hector • Levitt Graested 1990 White to Play Can you see how to draw by stopping both pawns? Miiller Linares 1994 (Analysis position) White to Play How should White continue? Chapter 4: Exercise 28 o Karpov • Kavalek Nice Olympiad 1974 White to Play What's happening?
What should he do? Chapter 3: Exercise 40 o Colle • Alekhine Paris 1925 Black to Play Can you find the way to break down White's blockade? Solutions and detailed endgames are to be found in Chapter Nine. 47 CHAPTER FOUR I Intermediate Level The selection here is intended to be more demanding than in the previous chapter. The solutions require rather refined techniques, subtle ideas or more involved variations. However, don't hurry! You'll need to use your powers of judgement more often and to be aware that some of the tactical lines are quite tricky.