An updated edition of Paul Keres' classic endgame instructor, designed specifically for practical players with over 500 extra diagrams to facilitate learning and memorisation of critical lines of endgame play.
It is an essential practical book, for all chess players, from one of the world's greatest grandmasters. Keres remained an elite grandmaster throughout his life and is widely regarded as one of the s strongest ever players not to have won the world chess champion.
His book is a comprehensive guide to the precise handling of all basic endgame positions. It features logical step-by-step explanations of procedures required to obtain the best possible results from frequently occurring queen, rook, bishop, knight and pawn endings. It includes commentaries on the final stages of selected tournament games, which demonstrate the art of favourable transposition from complex to clear-cut endgames.
- ISBN10 1849944954
- ISBN13 9781849944953
- Publish Date 5 July 2018 (first published 25 July 1974)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 22 March 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Pavilion Books
- Imprint Batsford Ltd
- Edition 2nd Revised edition
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 352
- Language English
- URL https://penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/isbn/9781849944953