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		Carlsen-Aronian Q+p vs. Q From the first round of the Elista candidates matches: [IMAGE]  7k/3Q4/8/6K1/6P1/8/8/7q b - - In this position Aronian blundered away half a point by playing 1...Qc1+?. Immediately after the fi... Started 06/16/07 at 18:06:48 by micawber	5	4216	06/17/07 at 12:36:32 By: micawber
		Endgamebooks Is there anybody out there, who worked through a chess endgame book? If there`s someone, could you reveal me, how did you do it? I´ve Mueller´s "Fundamental Chess Endings" and I know I´d improve, if I... Started 02/12/10 at 22:22:33 by gewgaw « Pages 1 2 all »	24	17584	09/02/10 at 16:25:00 By: Jupp53
		Kramnik-Aronian Candidate tournament round 5 This was the position after Black's 60th move. Black has just sacked his b2-pawn in order to capture on d7.  No doubt youre aware that opposite colored bi... Started 03/24/13 at 10:25:39 by micawber	7	4520	03/25/13 at 04:33:02 By: micawber
		Famous Tal endgames? Many class players want to emulate players like Tal, Bronstein, etc., and often don't want to study anything but tactics and openings.  These sorts of players often neglect the endgame and strategic p... Started 12/08/10 at 17:16:24 by ErictheRed	9	7083	12/09/10 at 23:00:42 By: ErictheRed
		A Behting study and ChessBase Challenge Recently, ChessBase posted a challenge motivated by a 1908 study by Carl Behting, which has for many years defied computer analysis: http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=8388 The most re... Started 08/26/12 at 08:22:56 by mbourzut	4	8896	09/14/12 at 23:43:34 By: mbourzut
		Third Edition of Van Perlo's book!? Greetings, I see that there's a new "improved" 3rd edition of Endgame Tactics. As I'd only just bought the 2nd edition at Christmas...! So, what's "improved" in this edition? Kindest reg... Started 02/11/08 at 11:32:38 by Dragan Glas	2	2611	06/10/08 at 14:23:48 By: Librarian
		ECE volume 2, 2nd ed Hello endgame lovers.  I just received the newly published second edition of the Encyclopedia of Chess Endings v2 (rook + pawn endings), and I am very pleased to see that some of the analysis done in ... Started 01/25/14 at 03:42:44 by proustiskeen	2	3393	04/07/14 at 22:44:55 By: proustiskeen
		OK, you're a 2700 player and .... You have a king on e4 and a pawn on f2; your Black opponent has a pawn on f7 and a king on b4. How do you play? Off you go, and be quick - you have thirty seconds to make a decision. Started 02/07/07 at 12:29:54 by IMJohnCox « Pages 1 2 all »	20	13519	02/16/07 at 13:25:40 By: IMJohnCox
		Only Five Endgame Books for your Collection You can have only five endgame books in your collection: which ones do you choose? Nigel Davies is a strong supporter of Shereshevsky's Endgame Strategy and Zvonko-Borovsky's endgame treatise (sorry, I... Started 09/12/09 at 12:23:28 by Bowen « Pages 1 2 all »	20	22449	02/11/10 at 12:01:40 By: Igor
		Reference books (attn: Micawber and Poghosyan?) I'm thinking of beefing up my reference collection in endgames and studies.  I have the Cheron books, a few of the Averbakh in DN, and a good number of the more current (post-1980) monographs.  I also... Started 05/28/12 at 01:47:47 by proustiskeen	9	6722	05/31/12 at 00:14:09 By: jmi
		An endgame book without errors Actually I dont believe there is such a book. First of all endgamebooks from before the computer era contain many errors only brought to light by the tablebases. There is an amusing story by Hans... Started 06/26/07 at 19:10:24 by micawber	13	8776	12/04/07 at 15:28:22 By: Girkassa
		"Just the Facts" I've been going thru Lev Alburt's endgame book "Just the Facts" and have found the material excellent and easy to digest (Jacob Aagaard's comment that the book has too many stupid mistakes is ridiculo... Started 06/11/13 at 05:38:03 by Anonymous3	1	2830	06/17/13 at 22:49:40 By: Benoniac
		KRBkr: who first described "second rank defense"? Today, I was watching the London game McShane-Kramnik where McShane held the draw in an endgame KR vs. KRB. For most of the time (almost 50 moves in this endgame) he relied on the now famous second ra... Started 12/10/10 at 23:15:29 by Papageno « Pages 1 2 all »	19	18560	09/29/11 at 13:48:13 By: Papageno
		Opposite colored bishops endgame I played a 10 minute game over lunch and ended up in the following opposite-colored bishops endgame. I was Black and down two pawns. I lost and think it's probably a loss, but am at a loss for "provin... Started 03/30/11 at 15:10:34 by gzt	12	7530	04/25/11 at 18:27:12 By: Matemax
		Poll: Karsten Müller's Speaking Style I have [Chessbase Fritz Trainer] Endgames (Schachendspiele) volumes 1-4 (in English), but they are simply useless for me. I like CBFTs, I have understood everyone else's speech regardless of their mother language, but af... Started 06/23/09 at 15:45:42 by HoemberChess « Pages 1 2 3 all »	36	26780	03/18/10 at 11:48:09 By: TalJechin
		published B/N/P endgame - a better way From Endgame Secrets #10 and Fundamental Chess Endings 5.30. Neither book finds a win for White, but both go through a long analysis starting with 1.Ne4. Apparently they (not sure about Beliavsky's [i]Winnin Started 02/18/14 at 20:07:02 by erasmus_b_dragon	4	4246	02/19/14 at 14:16:12 By: erasmus_b_dragon
		Dvoretsky’s FastTrack   Dvoretsky’s Endgame Manual - FastTrack Edition Edited by Karsten Müller & Alex Fishbein  Foreword by Ian Rogers Russell Enterprises, 216 pages, 20$, September 2021 https://www.rus... Started 06/29/21 at 07:18:20 by tracke	0	1617	06/29/21 at 07:18:20 By: tracke
		Shameless request for assistance on my new book I'm writing a book on the Berlin, and it includes a section on typical endings. One of these is W: a4 b2 c4 e5 f2 g3 h3 Bd2 Kg2; B: a5 b5 c7 c5 e6 g6 h5 Be7 Kd7. This is Howell-Parker, 4NCL 2003,... Started 01/29/08 at 18:46:43 by IMJohnCox « Pages 1 2 all »	18	16795	02/15/08 at 21:30:34 By: micawber
		interesting endgame? 5rk1/2p3p1/4p3/p1p1N1P1/P4P2/1P4KP/5R2/3r4 w - - 0 37 Here's a position from a recent tournament game I played.  Black had a fairly decent advantage, but misplayed it and ended up in this positio... Started 02/27/10 at 04:44:04 by proustiskeen	4	3054	03/01/10 at 00:26:05 By: Smyslov_Fan
		Not the opening but PAWN ENDINGS, by Flear I am a 2100+ player who has been a GOLD PLUS member for a few years.  I have a question for GM Flear.  I have read ALL of the Flear STARTING OUT books.  In PAWN ENDINGS, example 149 Durao-Lopez: in th... Started 06/16/05 at 00:47:35 by mitfit	3	4105	10/22/05 at 14:31:20 By: Fernando Semprun

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