Gloucester Publishers Plc Endings, paperback/yasser seirawan

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Winning Chess Endings teaches endgame strategies in an exciting new way--by putting the player in the middle of the action with firsthand stories taken directly from famous matches.

Pull up a chair and watch the world's most exciting chess endings.

Then become an endgame master Winning Chess Endings explains how to: Relentlessly find checkmates, from easy to hard, in all basic endgame patterns Master the intricacies of King and Pawn Endings Win consistently in the most common endgame--the Rook ending Master the pros and cons of Bishop vs.

Knight Endgames Seize the advantage in Rook Pawn and Queen Pawn endings Play like a grandmaster in solitaire endings About the Author: About the author Yasser Seirawan is the highest-rated American chess professional on the Federation Internationale des Echecs (FIDE) rating ladder and the first American to vie for the World Championship title since Bobby Fischer.

He is a three-time U.

S Champion, the 1989 Western Hemisphere Champion and an eight-time member of the U.

S chess Olympiad team.

Currently one of the worlds top-ranked chess players, he is one of only a handful of players to have defeated world champions Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov in tournament play.