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Dorado YaBB Newbies Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 13 Location: Melby, Denmark Joined: 09/25/11 Gender:	Re: 100 Endgames You Must Know Reply #18 - 06/11/15 at 10:38:59	Post Tools	Print Post
	You might be right. My comment is to the diagram the member wss has made where the pieces are on the following positions. White. King g5, pawns f4 & h4, Rook b7. Black. King g8, Rook a1.


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Smyslov_Fan God Member Correspondence fan Offline Progress depends on the unreasonable man. ~GBS Posts: 6902 Joined: 06/15/05	Re: 100 Endgames You Must Know Reply #17 - 06/11/15 at 05:30:54	Post Tools	Print Post
	Dorado wrote on 06/08/15 at 22:10:26: After 1...Rg1+ 2.Kf6 is a blunder because of 2...Rg4 when one of the pawns will drop resulting in a draw. And 3.Rb8+ leads to nothing. After 1...Rg1+ white should instead play 2.Kf5 to prevent 2.Rg4 after that black is lost. Dorado, you've obviously set up a different position since 2.Kf6 is impossible. Pageno's original comment is correct. 1...Rg1 2.Kf5 Rf1+ is a draw. http://www.k4it.de/index.php?topic=egtb&lang=en


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Dorado YaBB Newbies Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 13 Location: Melby, Denmark Joined: 09/25/11 Gender:	Re: 100 Endgames You Must Know Reply #16 - 06/08/15 at 22:10:26	Post Tools	Print Post
	After 1...Rg1+ 2.Kf6 is a blunder because of 2...Rg4 when one of the pawns will drop resulting in a draw. And 3.Rb8+ leads to nothing. After 1...Rg1+ white should instead play 2.Kf5 to prevent 2.Rg4 after that black is lost.


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Re: 100 Endgames You Must Know
Reply #15 - 06/30/14 at 08:16:05

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Unfortunaltely, there is a similar problem with p. 159, 2nd position:

The book says "White wins" while the tablebase gives ...Rg1+ as draw.

If Wikipedia has it right then, by 2005, all chess positions with up to six pieces had been solved. Still, a good number of endgame books were printed afterwards obviously without checking the 6-men.

Edit: It's only now that I notice that this is already given as a correction at the NiC website.

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WSS Senior Member Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 273 Joined: 04/22/11	Re: 100 Endgames You Must Know Reply #14 - 06/29/14 at 14:34:54	Post Tools	Print Post
	Paddy wrote on 06/29/14 at 13:49:33: You can report such errors at http://www.newinchess.com/Support/Default.aspx?PageID=600 for correction in future editions - a useful facility which I think does New In Chess credit. Thanks Paddy. I was not aware of NIC's errata page and have submitted this one. It was helpful to read the other errors they report there, both in this book and other NIC books I own. Well done.


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Paddy God Member Offline The truth will out! Posts: 964 Location: Manchester Joined: 01/10/03 Gender:	Re: 100 Endgames You Must Know Reply #13 - 06/29/14 at 13:49:33	Post Tools	Print Post
	You can report such errors at http://www.newinchess.com/Support/Default.aspx?PageID=600 for correction in future editions - a useful facility which I think does New In Chess credit.


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ReneDescartes God Member Offline Qu'est-ce donc que je suis? Une chose qui pense. Posts: 1236 Joined: 05/17/10 Gender:	Re: 100 Endgames You Must Know Reply #12 - 06/29/14 at 13:27:15	Post Tools	Print Post
	Well spotted--the Nalimov tablebases confirm it is won. It's a draw if the Black King has another rank to move in. Still, I think this book is excellent. De la Villa writes like Capablanca, very clearly and directly.


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Re: 100 Endgames You Must Know
Reply #11 - 06/29/14 at 00:40:24

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In the following position (page 160), de la Villa labels this as a draw and describes the drawing procedure as 1…Rg1+ 2.Kf6 Rh1 "alternating checking and threatening the h-pawn."

However it seems that White can simply play 3.h5 since 3…Rxh5?? fails to 4.Kg6 threatening both the rook and mate. When the h-pawn is on the 6th rank it is a draw but it seems when the pawn is on both the 5th and 4th rank it is a win. Is his statement in the book that the drawing defense works when the h-pawn has not yet reached the 5th rank simply an error?

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FM Dikkie Junior Member Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 75 Location: Veenendaal Joined: 02/20/08 Gender:	Re: 100 Endgames You Must Know Reply #10 - 08/16/08 at 18:30:13	Post Tools	Print Post
	I have the book and worked over halfway through it by now. I must say I have never seen a book on endgames so well explained. De la Villa tries to give "rules" for as far this is possible, many endgames I do understand much easier than before. Its easy to forget for example after a year or so how a certain rook endgame has to be saved or won, but by these explanations it feels like it is easy to understand. I think IM John Cox would have said anything else if he had done a bit more than only looking by it quickly in a store and understand why exactly that engame was given. (Anyway I like most of John's books too ) I rate this book very high and I think it's a "must buy!". I have the endgames dvd's by Karsten Müller which I found very good but this book makes it even more clearer. I once was rated 2300+, now its about 2100 because I didn't play much but I think it's good material for 18/1900 up to even 24/2500. You can study a lot of openings which can become "outdated" but these important endings de la Villa discusses certainly don't!


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Fausto Alava-Moreno Full Member Offline I Love Holistic Chess!! Posts: 160 Location: Oviedo, SPAIN Joined: 04/24/08 Gender:	Re: 100 Endgames You Must Know Reply #9 - 08/15/08 at 16:45:15	Post Tools	Print Post
	The english version of the book corresponds with the second edition of the spanish version (the original one). Some errors has been corrected from the first one. I have work with the first spanish version, and is one of the best BASIC endgames book I have read it. Obviously, 100 finals is a very reduced amount, and everyone could add more of our favourites ones to the book. But, in my opinion, the selecction is quite good.

	-- Best regards, Fausto.
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Scarblac Full Member Offline Chess Addict Posts: 190 Location: Netherlands Joined: 09/17/07 Gender:	Re: 100 Endgames You Must Know Reply #8 - 08/09/08 at 15:29:35	Post Tools	Print Post
	A review is on ChessCafe: http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review645.pdf


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Geof_Strayer YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 39 Location: Los_Angeles Joined: 04/08/05	Re: 100 Endgames You Must Know Reply #7 - 08/02/08 at 04:22:51	Post Tools	Print Post
	I have not much to add, only to say that I agree with tracke and rossia that this is an excellent book. It is the first endgame book in a long time I have managed to keep making steady progress through without getting bored or overwhelmed. - Geof Strayer


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rossia Senior Member Offline Saw: "Game Over!" Posts: 334 Location: Irkutsk Joined: 09/17/07	Re: 100 Endgames You Must Know Reply #6 - 08/01/08 at 22:04:43	Post Tools	Print Post
	This is the best practical endings book which I own. Much more better than Makarov's and much much more than Silman's "Endgame Course".


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trw YaBB Moderator Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 1414 Joined: 05/06/08 Gender:	Re: 100 Endgames You Must Know Reply #5 - 07/22/08 at 05:14:12	Post Tools	Print Post
	I heard a favorable review of this book somewhere... was trying to find the link. It basically discussed how this was something for the people that couldn't make headway in manuals like Silman, Dvoretsky, Karsten, Fine etc.


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IMJohnCox God Member Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 1551 Location: London Joined: 01/28/06 Gender:	Re: 100 Endgames You Must Know Reply #4 - 07/21/08 at 13:08:48	Post Tools	Print Post
	I opened this in a shop in a very desultory way and found the choice of endgame surprising. I only really looked at one example - N & P -v- B, with the defending king far away, and talking about how long a diagonal the bishop needed. The example given was nice and clearly explained, but I just imagined that there would be more than 100 endings you'd need to know before this one. Maybe I'm wrong. Not really a criticism - it looked nice enough based on my very cursory look.


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