Van Perlo's Endgame Tactics: A Comprehensive Guide to the Sunny Side of Chess Endgames
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| Rating | : | 4.50 (665 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 9056914944 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 608 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-24 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Ger van Perlo (1932-2010) was a Dutch chess correspondence grandmaster who collected endgame tactics for more then 30 years.
2006 Book of the Year Award. (Glenn Petersen ChessCafe)An irresistible collection of more than 1,300 endgame tricks and traps. Middlegame tactics books like this helped me reach master level; I wonder how far an endgame tactics book could have helped me go? I never found endgames as much fun to study (till now). (British Chess Magazine)The thing's addictive! You can absorb fundamental lessons while being entertained. A superb book, highly instructive. It cannot but help to improve your chess, painlessly, even enjoyably. (Ian Rogers Sun Herald)Did the theme "endings" always seem a bit dusty to you? Thanks to Van Perlo it really starts (perhaps for you for the first time?) to really shine. Thus, instead of starting them on endgame principles, it only made sense to start them off by showing them the sunny side of end
Sit back, forget about theoretical endgames, and enjoy the entertainment of real life chess in Endgame Tactics!. Secondly, because you always work harder at something you enjoy, it actually improves your endgame play.You, too, can make the first step towards improving your endgame skills and beat more opponents by learning to love the endgame. In this new edition of Van Perlo’s Endgame Tactics more than 300 fresh examples have been added, making this fourth edition 25% bigger than its predecessors.Why has Van Perlo’s Endgame Tactics been such a fantastic success? To begin with because it made many regular chess players appreciate for the first time that endings are fun. This is the new and substantially expanded edition of a modern chess classic. Why is it that you usually look at only a couple of pages in any endgame theory book you see? You’ll find out here. Upon its publication in 2006, Van Perlo’s Endgame Tactics won the two most prestigious book awards in the chess world, as it was elected both the English Chess Federation Book of the Year and the ChessCafe Book of the Year.By chance, in 2013 publisher New In Chess discovered an unexpected treasure trove, a previously unpublished further batch of endgame tactics collected by Dutch correspondence grandmaster Ger van Perlo (1932-2010)
Every chess player's second book on endgames Christopher J. Falter A lot of my chess playing friends don't give much attention to endgames. Study the openings--you'll obtain a strong advantage! Study the middlegame--you'll crush your opponent! And besides, endgames are boring.I would dispute those characterizations of the value of endgame study vs. other phases of the game, because I frequently pick up rating points from equal endgames. But still, there is that factor of interest to. easy to follow Well written, easy to follow. Improve your endgame, must have for improving chess players. Great book, great collection The-Gov Fantastic collection, entertaining as well as a good learning tool