DVORETSKY'S ENDGAME MANUAL (2nd Edition)

Author: Mark Dvoretsky

Russell Enterprises (2006)

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402 pages

$27.95

Reviewed by John Donaldson

A few years ago Grandmaster Alex Shabalov was giving a lecture at the Mechanics' Institute Chess Club in San Francisco. When he finished his talk, Shabalov opened the floor to questions and the first was "What book do you recommend for someone who is ambitious to improve?" Shabalov said that normally this would be a hard question to answer without more information about the questioner's strengths and weaknesses, their age, how long they had been playing, how much time they had to study, etc, but that a recent book had made this all a moot point. The several time U.S. Champion recommended DVORETSKY'S ENDGAME MANUAL as that rare book that players of many different abilities could benefit from.

The publication of the second edition of DVORETSKY'S ENDGAME MANUAL, three years after the appearance of the first, testifies to the excellent reception this work has enjoyed. The present edition, twenty pages longer than the first, with both corrections and new material, will only add to Dvoretsky's reputation as a chess pedagogue of the first order. The neatly laid out oversize paperback is filled with everything one needs to know about the endgame. That which is deemed absolutely essential is highlighted in blue.

Highly Recommended

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