200 Brilliant Endgames

by Irving Chernev

Book Overview

Both an instruction book and an engaging meditation on the joys of chess, this is the final work by one of the most successful chess writers of all time. Irving Chernev blends anecdotes with his... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671672843
• ISBN13: 9780671672843
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 223 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.

Customer Reviews

funny endgame studies

A chernev book is an integral part of any chess library, and 200 brilliant endgames is the masters final work. Always witty, illuminating and lively, Irving chernev explores the chrystalline beaty of chess at its best, analyzing 200 unique endgames of players from Afansiev to Yakimchik.The studies are well picked, funny and entertaining, usually difficult to solve, but not impossible as they are in other books about endgame studies.The best of Irving chernevs book are timeless and continue to sell well years after his death. This is one of them.Book is in algebraic notation.Komodo