Secrets of Pawn Endings edition by Karsten Müller Frank Lamprecht Humor Entertainment eBooks
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"It is possible to lose oneself in the amazing universe of King and Pawn endings and this is the ultimate guidebook for what would certainly be an extraordinary journey. It is also an excellent book to dip into to dig out some quick snippets of entertainment. Every single page will deliver such goods. ... A very thorough and entertaining work!" - Sean Marsh, marshtowers.blogspot.com
The definitive modern work on pawn endings, written by the same authors as the award-winning Fundamental Chess Endings.
This book provides a thorough course in endings with just kings and pawns, from the simple to the highly complex. Armed with this knowledge, the reader will also be able to tackle other types of endgame with greater confidence and certainty.
Many interesting and beautiful positions are included, and there are test positions for the reader to solve. The authors follow the rigorously logical conventions introduced by John Nunn in his famous series of endgame manuals. This has necessitated a phenomenal amount of new analysis of theoretical positions to assess precisely the merits of each and every move.
* A comprehensive and authoritative guide to the most fundamental type of endgame
* Includes puzzle positions to test the reader's understanding
* Makes use of computer software specifically geared to pawn endings
* Logically organized in user-friendly fashion
"...written by the authors of Fundamental Chess Endings and is up to the quality of that book. ... Very highly recommended." - Paul Dunn, Australasian Chess magazine
Karsten Müller is a grandmaster from Germany, who competes regularly in the Bundesliga and international events. He finished third in the German Championship in 1996, and was runner-up in 1997. He is a noted authority on both practical and theoretical endgames. Frank Lamprecht is also from Germany, and is an international master. He has been a chess trainer since 1983. Müller and Lamprecht won the British Chess Federation Book of the Year Award in 2002 for Fundamental Chess Endings - a well-thumbed copy of which was seen in use at Magnus Carlsen's World Championship training camp in 2013!
"Through this book you shall find a mass of instructive exercises and please don't forget to study the ideas of the great endgame magician Nikolai Dmitrievich Grigoriev, because this book offers many of his brilliant ideas!" - John Elburg, chessbooks.nl
"...excellent for all readers, whether the expert level player seeking to ascend into the master ranks (or beyond) or the casual player hoping to gain a deeper appreciation of pawn endings' beauty. A good example of the book's versatility is the discussion of corresponding squares. The discussion is thorough, addressing everything one needs to know about the importance of corresponding squares in pawn endings. The subject matter is highly technical, but Müller and Lamprecht use classic endgame studies to keep the reader's attention. Furthermore, a plethora of diagrams depict the application of corresponding square concepts. For years, Secrets of Pawn Endings has been one of my favorite endgame books. Müller and Lamprecht have written a book of great theoretical and practical significance. Secrets of Pawn Endings is a must-have." - Josh Specht, chessvideos.tv
Secrets of Pawn Endings edition by Karsten Müller Frank Lamprecht Humor Entertainment eBooks
An amazing guide on pawn endings. This is not only one of the most important endgame types, but studying pawn endings also works out your calculation skills. It's much easier to see many moves ahead with pawns and kings only usually (though this book has some positions with thickets of variations that can be tough to chop through) because they're short ranged pieces and pawns only capture diagonally one square and there is very rarely any threat of checkmate. Zwugwzang, Steinitz's Rule, shouldering, widening the beachhead, opposition, triangulation, Bahr's Rule, rule of the square, etc., are all building blocks that make these endings easier. This is by no means an easy book, but it's still nevertheless accessible to club players. It is highly practical so make sure you study this book until the concepts are drilled into your DNA! Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual is a good compliment to it for reinforcing your pawn ending understanding.Product details
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Secrets of Pawn Endings edition by Karsten Müller Frank Lamprecht Humor Entertainment eBooks Reviews
This book is simply amazing. If you commit the time to study it in depth, you will learn subtleties that would possibly be forever lost to you. One thouroughly awesome example is from the ending of the game S.Ludwig-A.Klauser (Bad Ragaz 1990), where White had an extra pawn (3 vs.2 on the queenside), and it was White to move in the following position WKd3, pawns on a4,b2,c2, BKe6, pawns on a7,b7. You would intuitively think that the winning procedure would be to simply blow the pawns up the board a la Capablanca/Nimzovichs' "candidate in front" rule and just win with your extra pawn. However, since there is a deep subtlety (only found through intense study of this book!) of the fact that White's rook pawn has **already moved**, Black will be able to draw in a study-like fashion with a bishop and rook's pawn vs. rook's pawn setup by preventing the opposition and moving his king to the same color as the square of the rook pawn if it be on a4/a5/a6, etc. White wins this position by moving his king up and then advancing his c-pawn, leaving his b-pawn for reserve tempos, losing his c-pawn for Black's b-pawn (likely with check), then using the last reserve tempo from the b-pawn to outflank Black. Not something that is intuitive, and immensely helpful!
This book is chock-full of things like the last example, and you will learn the subtleties and exceptions to things like Bahr's rule (concerning fixed rook pawns and a passed pawn), with other many counter-intuitive winning or drawing procedures. The authors have also done an incredible job with back-linking positions in later chapters with material from previous chapters when variations translate into something already learned, all of which is easily referenced for the reader.
I can now see why everyone has rated this book 5 stars. Highly, highly recommended.
I'm a class C player interested in seriously improving my game. My first endgame book was by Yasser Seirawan, Winning Chess Endings. I didn't really get enough out of the book's section on pawn endings. Due to this I decided to purchase this boook and I was amazed at what I could learn and how quickly. I believe this is the easiest to understand book on any aspect of chess theory I have ever read.
To get the most out of this book I highly recommend playing through the positions against a strong chess engine (Fritz, for example). Evaluate the test positions in your head and if you get any incorrect play through the positions against the engine.
I rarely reach endgames in my play, but I'm sure that I am able to correctly evaluate if I should trade off into an ending or not when I am faced with the choice.
Unfortunately, explanations of pawn endings tend to be more mystifying than helpful to players of average talent (like me). Even single pawn endgames can seem so puzzling. However, with a little work even average players can understand this book. I suspect it would be helpful to unusually talented and experienced players as well.
I feel that for most player's purposes this book is a little better than Averbach's book, but it's most fun to have them both and compare their explanations. Averbach's book spends far more time on the theory of corresponding squares, while this book is more practical. In short, don't despair if you can't find Averbach's book; this one is very good.
If you've read a basic introduction to the endgame, and want to go deeper, this is the next step. All other endgames constantly threaten to reduce to pawn endgames, so these are fundamental concepts. As it says on the back cover, "Without an understanding of [pawn endings] it is impossible to master more complicated endings." That is absolutely true.
Many players will feel that pawn endgames are boring, but in reality they can be very beautiful. If you learn to enjoy them, then your enjoyment of the entire game of chess will increase.
Ok, endgame books are mostly raw facts and calculation. Accuracy is more important than writing ability. If you purchased this book, there is no doubt what you expected to take from it.
When I found the first typo on the first page of chapter one I thought I made a bad purchase. I don't care about excuses...poor editing, hard to translate from German, or anything else.
As I continued to read I found the book to be better than I had expected. Once I got used to the codes and symbols, the book was very enjoyable. The exercises were outstanding. They hammered home the critical ideas without wasting your time on exercises that would never occur in an actual game. And yes the book was very accurate. I learned a few new ways to quickly evaluate complex positions. The order of the exercises was perfect. Each exercise built on the previous exercises as they flowed smoothly through the book. You can not spend too much time with a book like this.
After living and playing in Germany for the past two years I am amazed at the strength of German players and their passion for the game. They are absolutely crazy about chess. I find chess everywhere I go in this country. These two authors are a direct reflection of chess in Germany today. I will look for more of their books.
An amazing guide on pawn endings. This is not only one of the most important endgame types, but studying pawn endings also works out your calculation skills. It's much easier to see many moves ahead with pawns and kings only usually (though this book has some positions with thickets of variations that can be tough to chop through) because they're short ranged pieces and pawns only capture diagonally one square and there is very rarely any threat of checkmate. Zwugwzang, Steinitz's Rule, shouldering, widening the beachhead, opposition, triangulation, Bahr's Rule, rule of the square, etc., are all building blocks that make these endings easier. This is by no means an easy book, but it's still nevertheless accessible to club players. It is highly practical so make sure you study this book until the concepts are drilled into your DNA! Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual is a good compliment to it for reinforcing your pawn ending understanding.
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