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Chess Endings: Essential Knowledge
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This is the bare minimum one must know about the chess endings.

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Robert
Mar 19, 2013 rated it it was amazing
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When I was looking for the "tinniest" book about the chess endgame for my students, I concluded that this the right title for them.
Averbakh has just covered the bare minimum one must know about final phase of the game.
Funny, but my club-mate, who is also a GM, didn't know that the position on the page 53 - diagram 78 (in the algebraic edition of the book) is actually a simple draw.
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