Comprehensive Chess Endings Vol 2 Bishop vs Knight Rook vs Minor Piece Endings

Bishop vs. knight and rook vs. minor piece rarely have their own books dedicated to them (though the one volume manuals like Basic Chess Endings give them adequate coverage) so it's great to expand our knowledge further within this subject matter. What I really love about this book is some studies come from the 13th and 10th centuries CE, which makes sense since the rook, knights, and king move the same way in the previous version of chess. Aside from that what I also love is positions from practical games with more than four pawns on each side since some books neglect such material distributions unfortunately. Besides straight up theoretical understanding in these types of endings you will also learn how to use bishop against a knight, vice versa, and rook against a minor piece more effectively. It is well known that studying the endgame improves your overall chess understanding because you understand piece coordination better.

Of all the books in this series, this is the one I was hoping would help the most. Learning about when the bishop is better than the knight and vise-versa is so important. And the whole idea of how to fight with a rook after you've won the exchange comes up over and over again. The content of this book is five-stars. The diagrams are, unfortunately, poorly reproduced and in a font that is both old-fashioned and hard to read. You have to give the ISHI guys a break, since these books went out of print and were hard to find. At least we have them now. But it would have been so much better if the copy they had found to reproduce had the modern diagrams.

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This is one of the endgame books that was required for my endgame studies. I am training with a professional chess coach now, and this was one of the required books.

La référence dans le domaine.Yuri Averbakh et ses collègues de l'ex union soviétique ont réalisé un travail prodigieux d'analyse et de synthèse dans ce domaine si aride en apparence et pourtant si merveilleux dès que l'on s'y plonge. L'ensemble constitué de 5 tomes me semble incontournable.

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