Product Description

For over 100 years, the world's leading chess players and teachers have told their students to study the endgame. Now, for the first time, a revolutionary, richly instructive endgame book has been designed for players of all levels. This is the one and only endgame book you'll need as you move up the ladder from beginner to tournament player and master. Designed to 'speak' to a player in a very personal way, Silman's book teaches the student everything he or she needs to know at his or her current rating level, and builds on that knowledge for each subsequent phase of the player's development. Starting at the beginner's level, all basic mates are clearly and painstakingly explained. After that, the critical building blocks that form the endgame foundation for all tournament hopefuls and experienced tournament competitors are explored in detail. Finally, advanced endgame secrets, based on concepts rather than memorization, are presented in a way that makes them easy to master.The basic keys to a well-rounded endgame education - Opposition, the Lucena and Philidor Positions, Cat and Mouse, Trebuchet, Fox in the Chicken Coup, Triangulation, Building a Box, Square of a Pawn, Outflanking, the Principle of Two Weaknesses - are vital. But equally important is creating a love of the endgame, which is addressed at the end of the book with a look at chess tactics, minor piece domination, and a discussion of the five greatest endgame players of all time - all things that every fan of chess at every level can enjoy. If you have found the endgame to be a mystery, if you have found that your confidence plummets once you reach an endgame, if you have searched for an instructive endgame book that will turn your weakest link - your endgame - into your personal field of power, your search is over. The book is the key to a world of essential ideas, startling beauty, and stunning creativity.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #105317 in Books
• Published on: 2008-07-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 530 pages

Customer Reviews

The Best Endgame Book !!!
Finally I found an endgame book that has really helped me. Why? Because as a beginner I do not know which endgames I really need to know, which are less important, and which ones have really complex ideas. This book is set up according to your skill level and not by subject heading. If your new to chess and don't have a chess teacher, buy this book. Jeremy Silman explains thing very clearly. You will definetely learn ALOT.

Too simple
This complete endgame book is very incomplete.
The initial chapters start off with very simple things - eg queen and king mating a lone king.
Is it really the purpose of a "complete" endgame book to include such idiotic things ?
Then the next few chapters are interesting, with a clear explanation on things like the Lucena rule.
However, these interesting chapters are quickly finished and then the book starts off really loosing it. There are no more rules but just explaining some endgames from the authors point of view - without providing any specific rules. It gets really horrible when the master gives the advise to avoid going into a pawn endgames unless you really have to, since the outcome is often inpredictable....
No, if you want to have some good explanation about how to play the endgame, go for some serious work. It is not worth the paper it is printed on.