Chess Endings:

Essential Knowledge

Yuri Averbakh

• Publisher: Popular Chess
• Year: 1993
• eBook ISBN: 9781857448252

By concentrating on the basic principles the average player is not only given a working knowledge of the endgame but also a firm foundation on which to further develop his or her interest and technique in this fascinating stage of a chess game. The author, a Russian Grandmaster and endgame expert, takes the reader from the most elementary checkmates, through the exploitation of positional and material advantage, right up to the analysis of actual endings from master play.

Table of contents

• Translator’s Foreword
• From the Author
• Introduction
• The Properties of the Pieces
• 1 MATING THE LONE KING
• 2 VARIOUS PIECES IN COMBAT
• 3 VARIOUS PIECES IN COMBAT WITH A PAWN
• 4 QUEENING A PAWN
• 5 PRACTICAL ENDINGS