I need help chosing endgame books
Miguel Angel Fernandez
I've got what I think it's a fairly good set of classic endings books. They
are:
Panws Endings by J.Maizelis
Rook Endings Theory by Lowenfisch and Smyslov
Bishop and Knight Endings by Y.Aberbach
I would like help in two areas:
a) They are good old classics and, as that, they are in descriptive
notation, which I find harder to read than algebraic and probably also
they're a little outdated. So I would like help chosing a good set of newer
books in algebraic, more up to date and, above all, of good instructive
value, not in the exhaustive encyclopedic style of Nunn's books.
b) Which areas of interest in endgame study am I lacking with only this
three books and which books do you think that would cover this "hole".
Thanks in advance for your time. Please answer to the group.
Regards,
mafergut
http://www.thecastledking.com/
Thierry Th
The books you are talking about are classical and of high quality. Pergamon
has published five volumes in algebraic notation mainly with Averbakh around
1983 covering all endings. The original russian books are from 1956.
Rook Endings of Levenfish/Smyslov from Batsford (1989) is in algebraic too.
Thanks computing support, more precisely, the Nalimov's table bases, we have
noticed some evolution in endgame's theory. Some of the older books have
some errors because of the complexity of few endgames and the miscalculation
of human mind. Except for historical interest, I do believe you should read
some more recent books. All those in your list are of course excellent (it
would be my own selection), even if they are not very recent, but the last
Dvoretsky's Endgame manual is just fantastic!
Dvoretsky presents the material in a very evolutive way. The book is not
just a reference book. Probably the smartest book I ever saw on the
endgames!
Good reading....
Thierry
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Dirk
from Karsten Muller and Frank Lamprecht.
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the new Dvorestky book.
regards dirk
Martin S
> Dvoretsky's Endgame manual is just fantastic!
> Dvoretsky presents the material in a very evolutive way. The book is not
> just a reference book. Probably the smartest book I ever saw on the
> endgames!
I had ordered this one and saw it on display at Rilton Cup, Stockholm, the
recent holiday. Looks utterly fantabulous. Just the looks of it makes you
impatient waiting for it to arrive.
Definately looks like one you could recommmend without reading too much, good
reviews as well.
/M.
Miguel Angel Fernandez
and the Muller & Lamprecht one.
Regards,
mafergut
mafergut
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What other all-around ending book should you recommend for a lower lever
player or a kid that is learning the game to read before those two? Perhaps
"Winning Chess Endings" by Seirawan is a good choice?
What do you think of this "Winning" Seirawan (some with Silman also) series
of books in general?
Thanks again,
mafergut
Mike Ogush
wrote:
I have not looked through Seirawan's book. Some that I have looked at
and like:
"Essential Chess Endings Move by Move" by Jeremey Silman covers from
beginning to intermediate levels and the follow on "Essential Chess
Endings Explained Vol 2" by Ken Smith goes from intermediate to
candiadte master level.
"Pandolfinin's Endgame Course" by Bruce Pandolfini is a mixed bag.
It offers explanantions aimed at beginners, but has some typos that
might confuse. The positions in a can be downloaed in Chessbase
format, which can be convenient for goinf through them on a computer.
Mike Ogush
>Thanks again,
>mafergut
>
>
Don C. Aldrich
Going back to your original post about Averbakh, the entire series has
been updated and put on CDRom by Convetka as "Comprehensive Chess
Endings." This is one of the best conversions from book to disc I
have ever seen. All the text of the originals have been retained, it
has been updated, and the whole thing has been re-edited and
corrected. Av says in the intro that about 200 of the 4000 examples
were found to be incorrect.
On the one hand, that is only 5%, which says a lot about the original
analysis. OTOH, 200 is a lot, and that represents a lot of work going
through the whole shebang that thoroughly.
At about $35, this is a great deal. The five volue collection in
English [With DN] would set you back well over a hundred US if you can
find it.
It does include a feature reduced version of CA to read it with. It
is so slick, it has me seriously thnking about checking out CA as a
database. And for those, like me, with CB, right clicking on any
board allows you to export to EPD which slides right in to a CB
product like CB or Fritz:)
==Dondo
mafergut
> You will not regret your purchases. They are both outstanding.
I can hardly wait for them to arrive.
> Going back to your original post about Averbakh, the entire series has
> been updated and put on CDRom by Convetka as "Comprehensive Chess
> Endings." This is one of the best conversions from book to disc I
> have ever seen. [snip]
Thanks for your suggestion. I will look for that CD as a high priority item
in my wish list! ;-) But I'll have to wait a little. Enough purchases for
now, those two books were not precisely cheap at Amazon, at almost $30 each.
Regards,
Miguel Angel Fernandez (a.k.a. mafergut)
http://www.thecastledking.com/