Mastering Complex Endgames

by Adrian Mikhalchishin, Oleg Stetsko

Overview

Adrian and Oleg compiled, resulting from all different kind of middlegames, an impressive amount of most instructive endgames. The ideal material for any chess player or trainer in search of the need endgame finesses and skills.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789492510112
Publisher:	Thinkers Publishing
Publication date:	09/15/2017
Pages:	411
Product dimensions:	6.70(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Grandmaster Adrian Mikhalchishin is a renowned former Ukrainian and Soviet junior chess champion. He coached former World Champion Anatoly Karpov, Alexander Beljavski, Richard Rapport to name some and he wrote more than 20 bestselling books.

International Master Oleg Stetsko was from 1980 until 89, the chief trainer of the Soviet national chess team. He published actively more than 20 years in the most important chess magazines, such as Chess Magazine and Chess review-64.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents 3

Key to Symbols 5

Foreword 7

Introduction 9

Chapter 1 Weaknesses in the Pawn Structure 15

Chapter 2 Structural Concessions 39

French Defence - classical system 39

The Caro-Kann defence - classical system 47

Ruy Lopez opening - Berlin variation 57

Chapter 3 An Isolated Pawn 71

Frontal attack on the isolated pawn 72

Simple endings 83

Chapter 4 Queens on the Board 97

I Complex endgames 97

II Endings with two pieces 132

Chapter 5 Multi-Piece Endgames 157

Controlling an open file 157

Restricting the King 170

Advantage of the pair of Bishops 174

Chapter 6 Two-Piece Endgames 193

With Rooks 193

Minor-piece endings 207

Chapter 7 Opposite-Colour Bishops 219

With Queens 219

With Rooks 231

With minor pieces 252

Chapter 8 An Exchange Up 259

Chapter 9 Rook Against Two Minor Pieces 289

Chapter 10 Queen Against Two Pieces 333

Queen against two Rooks 333

Queen versus Rook and a minor piece 353

Chapter 11 The Technique of Defending 361

Never lose courage! 379

Seek and you will find 387

Don't resign too fast 395

Chapter 12 Converting to a Pawn Endgame 399

Editorial Reviews

For this book, the authors have collected examples of complex endgames, which in most cases never appeared in endgame manuals. A number of these games belong to chess history, but are studied from a modern point of view. A lot of space is devoted to the practice of contemporary grandmasters, and use is made of analyses which have been published in chess publications like the Russian Journal "64", to which the authors regularly contribute. In the examples discussed by the authors, the stronger party always had a hard time converting his small advantage, and in some cases even very experienced Grandmasters were let down by their technique. But this is also a learning experience, and those who study the secrets of complex endgames can learn quite a lot from the kind of struggle characterised by very profound plans, surprising clues, and sometimes even real paradoxes. An excellent read! Chess Direct UK

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