The Chess Endgame: 250 Training Positions to Help You Learn and Master the Essential Techniques that Will Improve Your Tournament Play

Are you a chess player looking to up your game?Feeling unsure about endgames?Think studying endgames is boring and overly technical?"The Chess Endgame" is the book for you.Endgames are a playing field where even masters make mistakes, time is usually limited and requires clarity and mastery of technique, and chess discoveries and surprises are far from depleted.With 250 carefully selected endgame positions from the best chess literature and the largest endgame database available today, this book offers a training method inspired by the authoritative Russian trainer Mark Dvoretsky. The method involves working on sets of 5-6 exercises in a limited and pre-set time, simulating the situation of a real game as much as possible.The first 150 positions follow a clear, logical progression to favor systematic learning, while the following 100 diagrams are presented randomly and feature themes and techniques that integrate the previous ones. Each position is cataloged by piece composition, didactic theme, technique used, author, FEN code (Forsyth-Edwards Notation), and result.But this book is much more than just a collection of exercises. The solutions to the first 150 diagrams also provide a simple and accurate explanation of the technique used, giving the reader an actual essential course on endgames.Take advantage of the opportunity to improve your chess results and learn an innovative training method on endgames. By purchasing "The Chess Endgame," you'll also receive a FREE BONUS that allows you to download the PGN (Portable Game Notation) file of all 250 positions included in the book so that you can reproduce and analyze them on any chess software. Read more