Winning Endgame Technique

by Beliavsky, Alexander; Mikhalchischin, Adrian

• ISBN13: 9780713475128
• ISBN10: 0713475129
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-06-30
• Publisher: Batsford

Table of Contents

Symbols	5	(2)
Introduction	7	(2)
Pawn Endgames	9	(39)
Technical problems in pawn endgames	9	(19)
The opposition	9	(4)
Chess 'materialism'	13	(2)
Overlooking typical counterattacks	15	(2)
How to play with and against passed pawns	17	(5)
Premature resignation	22	(2)
Exercises	24	(4)
Exchanging into pawn endgames	28	(20)
Simple examples	28	(1)
Complex examples	29	(16)
Exercises	45	(3)
Rook endgames with two extra pawns	48	(7)
Typical rook endgames with a passed pawn on the wing	55	(25)
The rook's pawn	55	(5)
The knight's pawn	60	(5)
The bishop's pawn	65	(7)
The central pawn	72	(8)
Various rook endgames	80	(22)
The riddle of Duchamp	80	(3)
Botvinnik's puzzle	83	(1)
Capablanca's puzzle	84	(1)
Is the endgame J. Polgar-Spassky lost?	85	(9)
A cunning king manoeuvre	94	(1)
Prophylactic cutting off (cramping) moves	95	(1)
What is the best position for the rook?	96	(2)
The 'shoulder budge'	98	(1)
Exercises	99	(3)
Bishop Endgames	102	(20)
Same-coloured bishops with an isolated pawn	102	(10)
Same-coloured bishops with a passed pawn	112	(3)
Same-coloured bishops with pawns on one wing	115	(7)
Which is stronger, the bishop or the knight?	122	(12)
An unusual endgame	134	(6)
And 4 vs and 3 on the same wing	140	(18)
And 4 vs and 3 on the same wing	140	(6)
With rooks	146	(12)
Rook against bishop: how to win an exchange up	158	(24)
Tactics in the endgame	182	(3)
Solutions to the Exercises	185	(6)
Index of Games and Composers	191