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By Grandmaster Yasser Seirawan
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 with 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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