Conceptual Rook Endgames Grandmaster Knowledge

Name: Conceptual Rook Endgames Grandmaster Knowledge
SKU: 9781784831943
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Language: English

Issue: Finals

Level: Club Player

Author: GM Jacob Aagaard

No Pages: 416

Edition Year: 2024

Measures: 17 x 24 cm

ISBN: 9781784831943

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SKU: 9781784831943 Categorías: Editoriales, Finales, Libros, Quality Chess Etiquetas: Finales, QUALITY CHESS

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Conceptual Rook Endgames Grandmaster Knowledge Rook endgames are the most frequently recurring endgames and also one of the most exciting areas of chess, with mind bending tactical opportunities and dizzying nuances available. They have unsurprisingly been a big topic in endgame literature, with a heavy focus on the set theoretical positions and their logic and fixed conclusions (see the excellent Theoretical Rook Endgames by GM Sam Shankland, published as a sister volume to this book as the peak example of this).

Conceptual Rook Endgames Grandmaster

Conceptual Rook Endgames goes in a different direction. Focused on two dozen major concepts, the book explains the mechanisms of rook endgames in a novel way, by building foundations with simple examples, which can be seen in the most complicated examples as well. Rook endgames will remain rich and surprising, as they are for the greats, but armed with this book, your comprehension of them will skyrocket.

Grandmaster Knowledge

Grandmaster Jacob Aagaard is the most talented chess writer of his generation. He won the British Championship in 2007, but is mostly known for his multi-award winning books and his work with students that have won club, country, state, national, continental and world championships, as well as Olympiad golds (board and overall), the World Cup and Candidates tournament.

Jacob Aagaard

Rook endings are the type of theoretical ending which occur most often by far. They are worth studying as there are many positions which occur over the board regularly. Philidor’s draw,
Lucena’s win and Vancura’s draw are just the three most prominent examples. So there is already a vast literature on the subject. Why add two more books to the collection?
Rook endings can be regarded as having two aspects. One theoretical and one practical. So Quality Chess decided to cover each aspect in a separate book. Sam Shankland has a systematic style as he has proven in his excellent books on pawn play (Small Steps to Giant Improvement and Small Steps 2 Success).

Grandmaster Knowledge

So he was a great choice for the theoretical work, the aptly named Theoretical Rook Endgames. Equally, Jacob Aagaard’s creative genius, as demonstrated most recently in his A Matter of Endgame Technique, makes him an ideal choice for the sister work on practical rook endings, Conceptual Rook Endgames. Whilst the study of each book will be equally valuable to the practical player, it would be preferable for the reader to start by obtaining a full understanding of the theoretical aspects of rook endings from Sam’s book. These provide the fundamental building blocks to the practical aspects of such endings as demonstrated in Jacob’s book, which provides more advanced material.

Conceptual Rook Endgames Grandmaster

In Conceptual Rook Endgames, Jacob Aagaard investigates certain important guidelines, such as passed pawns should be pushed and the defender should exchange pawns. Numerous motifs are also examined, one important example being zugzwang. It is well-known that this is a weapon generally used by the attacker. Readers may be less familiar with the fascinating concept of
mutual zugzwang, where the side to play is in for a disappointment. This arises surprisingly often in practice. These guidelines and motifs and many others are explained in detail with many wellchosen examples. These examples clearly demonstrate that the real art of chess is not knowing the guidelines. It is to develop an intuition for the application of those guidelines and the recognition of when exceptions apply to them.

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