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Mastering Practical Endgames Daniel Naroditsky endgame mastery separates great players from the good. First-rate endgame play requires a mix of calculation, pattern recognition,

abstract themes, theoretical knowledge and resilience few have mastered. In this rich collection of seventy mini-lessons, written over six years,

acclaimed author GM Daniel Naroditsky guides you to every corner of the endgame world in the engaging, humorous, and always instructive style that made him famous.

Mastering Practical Endgames

The articles in this book were originally published in Chess Life Magazine and on chess.com. They have been checked carefully and updated where necessary.

Mastering Practical Endgames is a resource for chess improvement of the highest order.

Chess Improvement of the Highest Order

One of the most memorable moments in my life as an editor for New In Chess came when I opened my mailbox on 17 August, 2009. It contained a message by Vladimir Naroditsky,

offering us a book written by his thirteen-year-old son, Daniel. ‘Yeah, right,’ was my first reaction, but then I read the manuscript with growing amazement.

Daniel Naroditsky

It was well structured and very thoughtfully written – and entertaining! Our then publisher, Allard Hoogland, and I didn’t need much time to realize that we were onto something really

special. How a thirteen-year-old boy could argue and reason so systematically, and present his material in such a way that it seemed as if he had more than twenty years of experience,

is still beyond me. But there it was. Before we knew it, Danya’s first book, Mastering Positional Chess, was out. And as if this wasn’t enough, two years later another book followed:

Mastering Complex Endgames. Yes, of course, at 16 he’d already had plenty of those on the board too!

Mastering Practical Endgames

Daniel Naroditsky (1995-2025) became the World U12 Champion in 2007 and a Grandmaster at just 17 in 2013. He competed in the US Championship in 2021, defeating World No.

2 Fabiano Caruana. At his death in 2025, Naroditsky ranked 23rd in the world in blitz. Online, he was a respected and much-loved chess educator.

» What a loss his death is. The endgame books are amazingly well-explained.» – Grandmaster Ivan Salgado

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