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Winning Chess Endings

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Everyman Chess, Oct 1, 2003 - Games - 239 pages
Approach every endgame with a winning strategy!
Good books about endgames for beginners are few and far between. Winning Chess Endings is a great one - a gripping introduction to what you need to know to win chess endings, taught by American Grandmaster Yasser Seirawan. His entertaining, easy-to-understand style, incisive stories and insiders advice will help you develop a solid grasp of proven principles that you can apply with confidence whenever a game goes the distance. You'll learn to prevail time and again in endgames with common and uncommon combinations and pieces.
Winning Chess Endings explains how to: relentlessly find checkmates, from easy to hard, in all basic endgame patterns; master the intricacies of King and Pawn Endings; win consistently in the most common endgame - the Rook ending; master the pros and cons of Bishop vs. Knight Endgames; seize the advantage in Rook Pawn and Queen Pawn endings; play like a grandmaster in solitaire endings
Winning Chess Endings teaches endgame strategies in an exciting new way - by putting you in the middle of the action with firsthand stories taken directly from famous matches. Pull up a chair and watch the world's most exciting chess endings. Then become an endgame master!

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User Review  - William Herbst - Goodreads

Some of the earlier material in the book was helpful to my game but the later chapters on the more complex endings make my head spin and I'm afraid I get lost in the endless lines of variations. Read full review

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About the author (2003)

Yasser Seirawan is the highest-rated American chess professional on the Federation Internationale des Echecs (FIDE) rating ladder and the first American to vie for the World Championship title since Bobby Fischer. He is a three-time U.S Champion, the 1989 Western Hemisphere Champion and an eight-time member of the U.S chess Olympiad team. Currently one of the worlds top-ranked chess players, he is one of only a handful of players to have defeated world champions Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov in tournament play.

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TitleWinning Chess Endings
Everyman chess
Winning Chess - Everyman Chess Series
Winning Chess
AuthorYasser Seirawan
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherEveryman Chess, 2003
ISBN1857443489, 9781857443486
Length239 pages
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