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Just the Facts: Winning Endgame Knowledge in One Volume

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Nothing more clearly separates chess master from chess wannabe than winning endgame play. Accurate opening play can be satisfying, and combinations in the middlegame are exciting. But for most chess players, victory is the real finish line. And the endgame is the last lap of the race.Depending on whether or not you command the necessary endgame knowledge, you can spoil hours of planning, or you can enjoy the victory you've spent the whole game earning. You can even pull yourself out of the steely jaws or a "certain" defeat The best news is that you don't need to memorize thousands of positions, but only a few carefully selected ones. Combine these with the clear and concise explanations in Just the Facts and you have the key to chess mastery.

Just the Facts is the seventh and final volume of the best-selling Comprehensive Chess Course, the series that brings English readers the once strictly guarded and time-tested Soviet training methods, the key to the 50-year Russian dominance of the chess world.

Language: English

Pages: 412

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Newmarket Press

Release: December 01, 1999

ISBN: 1889323063

ISBN 13: 9781889323060

Just the Facts: Winning Endgame Knowledge in One Volume

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Nothing more clearly separates chess master from chess wannabe than winning endgame play. Accurate opening play can be satisfying, and combinations in the middlegame are exciting. But for most chess players, victory is the real finish line. And the endgame is the last lap of the race.Depending on whether or not you command the necessary endgame knowledge, you can spoil hours of planning, or you can enjoy the victory you've spent the whole game earning. You can even pull yourself out of the steely jaws or a "certain" defeat The best news is that you don't need to memorize thousands of positions, but only a few carefully selected ones. Combine these with the clear and concise explanations in Just the Facts and you have the key to chess mastery.

Just the Facts is the seventh and final volume of the best-selling Comprehensive Chess Course, the series that brings English readers the once strictly guarded and time-tested Soviet training methods, the key to the 50-year Russian dominance of the chess world.

Language: English

Pages: 412

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Newmarket Press

Release: December 01, 1999

ISBN: 1889323063

ISBN 13: 9781889323060

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