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Rook and pawn endings are by far the most common and the most important endgames. Pawn endings underlie other endings, helping you know when to trade pieces especially in rook versus rook endings. Grandmaster achievement lyev polugayevsky mei 18 telusur. For this reason, there has been tremendous demand for this book, as it is the most complete study of rook and pawn endgames ever undertaken. Comprehensive chess endings is a five volume master work by one of the worlds leading authorities on the chess endgames, grandmaster yuri averbakh. That is averbakh chess endings bishop against knight, rook against minor pieces isbn 4871875024 that is the same as volume 2 in this english language version. My favourite endgame book is paul keres practical chess endings which has a section on the most common rook endings.
Th is is a diffi cult subject where concrete knowledge is demanded. Grandmaster averbakh is now the world s oldest grandmaster. Yuri averbach averbakh 1966 indicates that the rule is correct usually when both. Download comprehensive chess endings averbakh pdf free shared files from downloadjoy and other worlds most popular shared hosts. Rook endings pergamon russian chess series english and russian edition 9780080269085 by averbakh, yuri. Yuri averbachs comprehensive chess endings pinters book rook endings and the one by victor kortchnoi practical rook endings. That being said, this book is really all that most strong players would ever need for rook endings. The first is chess endgames with bishop against knight, the second the rook against minor pieces. Rook endings pergamon russian chess series 9780080320489 by yuri averbakh. Our filtering technology ensures that only latest comprehensive chess endings averbakh pdf files are listed. Chapter 2 deals with some extraordinary endings with rook pawns and rooks vs a fair number of pawns. This english version is a direct translation from the russian except that the order of the volumes has been changed.
Many great struggles are decided by a rook and pawn endgame. Whenever i see an interesting rook ending i want to analyze further, i add it to this collection. Comprehensive chess endings is a five volume master work by one of the world s leading authorities on the chess endgames, grandmaster yuri averbakh. Comprehensive chess endings volume 3 queen and pawn endings queen against rook endings queen against minor piece endings. I, together with my great friend gm aleksander beliavsky, wrote three books on diff erent endgames and there are special chapters on rook endings, but in. Yuri averbakhs most popular book is basic chess endings. Averbakh,yuricomprehensive chess endings vol 2 bishop vs. His main purpose is to inspire readers with a deep interest in rook endings, and he promises that anyone who thoroughly masters the given. Publication date 1987 topics comprehensive chess endings pergamon russian chess series, chess, chess books collection. Averbakh comprehensive chess endings pdf yuri averbachs comprehensive chess endings pinters book rook endings and the one by victor kortchnoi. The following set of 4 books represented the culmination of many years work, aiming to present all known information about the basic endgame, together with the best related studies. The rook is a longrange piece, able to check and drive the enemy king far. Rook endings has 2 available editions to buy at half price books this book is a players guide to rook endings.
The book can be used as a teaching tool for acting out endings, as well as a reference in the analysis. As of 2020, he is the oldest living chess grandmaster. Yuri averbakh has 31 books on goodreads with 785 ratings. Queen and pawn endings, queen against rook endings, queen against minor piece endings pergamon russian chess series by. Averbakh has just covered the bare minimum one must know about final phase of the game.
The book can be used as a training manual for the enactment of endings, as well as a reference in the analysis. So, here we will try not to repeat most of the material from other books, and instead try to concentrate. Rook endings tournament players collection paperback october 1, 1989. So, here we will try not to repeat most of the material from other books, and instead try to concentrate on basic and practical knowledge. Ishi press has published one of the original russian language volumes. The first chapter deals with the essential theory of basic rook endings, including rook vs pawns and rook and pawns vs rook. This is the best endgame primer ive ever run across. Chess endings by yuri averbakh provides adequate instruction yet falls short of providing any significant guiding principles to apply to your end game strategy averbakh covers all the varying end games piece by piece, from kingpawn endings to complicated rook and queen endings. Yuri averbakh s most popular book is basic chess endings. Plus we have the encyclopaedia of endgames, where rook endings are selected and divided scientifi cally. Averbakh chess endings rook endgames russian edition.
In general, this fundamental research covers all major types of endgame. As nearly all rook endings will result in one of these three positions it is necessary that we go over the basics before advancing to more complex material. Chess endgame literature refers to books and magazines about chess endgames. Heres a little clip averbakh recorded in his stay in hamburg in 2005. Rubinstein vs e cohn, 1907 d00 queens pawn game, 56 moves, 10. Bishop against knight endings, rook against minor piece endings by yuri averbakh. Victor korchnoi, one of the greatest experts in the field of rook endings, now documents his own experiences in tournament play. Download comprehensive chess endings averbakh pdf tradl. Documents similar to comprehensive chess endings vol.
Comprehensive chess endings volume 4 pawn endings by yuri averbakh, available at book depository with free delivery. Ive tried to make this chapter as concise as possible, as all of this material has been covered very well and in great detail before. Leopold leonidovich averbakh 19031937 was the head of the russian association of proletarian writers rapp in the 1920s, and the most prominent of a group of communist literary critics who argued that the bolshevik revolution, carried out in 1917 in the name of russias industrial working class, should be followed by a cultural revolution in which bourgeois literature workers would be. Funny, but my clubmate, who is also a gm, didnt know that the position on the page 53 diagram 78 in the algebraic edition of the book is actually a simple draw. Where can i buy in germany the classic comprehensive chess endings.