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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!

Yasser Seirawan

Winning Chess Endings is part of Yasser Seirawan’s highly acclaimed Winning Chess series, the bestselling series of chess books ever.

The entire Winning Chess series is fully revised with a modern fresh layout.

• Relentlessly find checkmates patterns in all types of endings
• Master the intricacies of king and pawn endings
• Win consistently in rook endings – the most common endings of all
• Master the pros and cons of bishop vs knight endings
• Seize the advantage in complex queen endings

Winning Chess Endings

Yasser Seirawan is one of the top-ranked chess players in the USA and was the first American candidate for the World Championship title since Bobby Fischer.

He is a four-time US Champion, the 1989 Western Hemisphere Champion, and a ten-time member of the US Chess Olympiad team. His achievements distinguish

him as one of only a handful of players to defeat world champions Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov in tournament play.

 

At all stages of a chess game, timing is vitally important, but timing undergoes curious changes in king and pawn endings. In the opening and middlegame, every move is treasured

as a way to enhance our development, protect our king or a weakness, or initiate an attack. In chess, each move is a tempo. In king and pawn endings, the difference of a single tempo

is often the deciding factor; having an extra move in a pawn race can mean victory or defeat. Interestingly enough, there are some king and pawn endings in which you want your

opponent to be on the move, so you want to lose a tempo! To drive home the importance of timing, there’s a joke I tell about a bank robber who wouldn’t tell prison authorities where

he buried the loot, no matter how they tried to pry it out of him. In one of his aging mother’s weekly calls, she said she was thinking about planting potatoes in her back garden.

Winning Chess Endings

Her son, stressing his concern, said, “Mother, you definitely don’t want to do that! The ground is extremely hard, and you have to dig deep to plant the potatoes.

You would certainly strain your back and might hurt yourself badly. You must promise me you won’t plant potatoes. Now is definitely not the time!” “But…” she started to protest,

but her son insisted. “Really, mother, now is not the time.” The next week when she called, her son asked, “‘Mother, how are you?” ‘‘Terrible,’’ said his mother.

“There are FBI agents and police everywhere, digging up the backyard! It’s a mess and I’m in a panic! I don’t know what to do!” Calmly, her son replied,

“Now is the time to plant your potatoes.” Just as in life, in chess it is sometimes better to wait.

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