Winning Chess Endings (Winning Chess - Everyman Chess)

I can mate with a knight and a bishop now 🙂

I like GM Sierawan but I can't recommend any of his books. There are examples and diagrams. but not enough clear instruction, and it's poorly organized. Anyone that has problems with endings, will have the same problems after reading and studying the material. It's useless!

exactly as advertised

This is an excellent book for novice and intermediate chess players!In this book, the author teaches the chess endgame principles by providing real-life game situations and summaries. For example, what to do when you have one bishop and a pawn Vs. the lone king?This is so far *the best book* I have seen for learning chess endgames.I have just started to learn chess and this book has been a great help.If you would like to learn strategy, tactics, and other aspects of a chess game, try his other books, they are very good too!!!

I hope I will learn a lot from this book!

Many times throughout the book you are given moves that are just not possible and you have to figure out what move they actually mean. For instance on page 129 in the section on rook endings, the answer to quiz 7 is given as 3. Ra3 a5! 4.Kxf6. but if you look at the move order before this , the white king was last moved to f4 so I'm not sure how I am supposed to take the pawn on f6 if the king is on f4. The same problem occurs in quiz 8, with 13. Kg6 but alas the king is still on f4. There are also a few times when the notation tells you to move a rook to the square it is already on.. Maybe I am just missing something in how to read chess notation.

Clear and stalt forward

Very clear and very entertaining explanations for players of moderate ability.Well-organized excellent advice, like sitting at the grandmaster's side.

lots of things to help improve your chess game

This book don’t focus only on the technical or the strategic part of endgame play, instead it tries to make a all around introduction to endgame in general. Great book to start before deepening the study with Dvoretsky, De La Villa, Shereshevsky or Hellstein

From an initial flick through of the book, the content looks great, however all the diagrams of the chess boards are very faded and a little blurry. They could use more ink. Have attached an image

This is another book of a superb series on how to play chess and improve your game especially at this specialised stage of the game. Lively text with clear explanations, interesting and helpful. Useful for chess players of all levels who want to improve their game. Highly recommended, even players of a superior level of achievement will find (be reminded of) useful hints and tips. Essential reading if you want to win difficult finales.

I owned them when I was younger and I used to e-mail the author when I had problems. He always responded. Very good books. Easy to digest.