Endgame Analysis School cf Chess Excellence 1 3283004161, 3283002541, 3283002789, 3283004188, 3283003629, 3283004196, 3283003793

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Endgame Analysis School cf Chess Excellence 1
 3283004161, 3283002541, 3283002789, 3283004188, 3283003629, 3283004196, 3283003793

Table of contents :
Cover
Title page
From the author
Part one: The analysis of adjourned positions
An adjournment session that decided a match
Don't hinder one another!
Traps found in analysis
Prize for the best ending
A study generated by mistake
I choose a plan that is not the strongest!
How hard it is to win a won position!
An incomplete analysis
Give me an envelope, please
Even grandmasters make mistakes
Flippancy is punished!
Is it possible to be excessively serious?
The benefit of 'abstract' knowledge
A difficult analysis
Exercises for analysis
Part two: The endgame
The king establishes a record
Commentaries without variations
Mined squares
My first analysis
The transition into a pawn endgame
The fortress
The reward for tenacious defence
The principle of two weaknesses
Twin endings
Defence by frontal attack
Rook against pawns
A great master of the endgame
The strongest piece is the rook!
Like-colour bishops
Opposite-colour bishops
What remained off-stage
An amazing coincidence
Aerobatics
Exercises for analysis
Part three: Studies
Let training commence!
Deep calculation
Studies by grandmasters
Study ideas in practice
Playing exercises
Reciprocal playing
Exactly as in a study
The 'brilliance and poverty' of studies
Exercises for analysis
Solutions to exercises
Appendix: Indexes
Index by material
Index of exercises by thinking skills and types of problems to be solved
Index of players and analysts

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