100 Endgames You Must Know: Vital Lessons for Every Chess Player

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Chess is complicated. A beginner to the game has a lot of rules to learn before they attain competence. A typical Chess game has three major sections; the Opening, the Middlegame, and the Endgame. Given all of this, how do you decide what to focus on first? The instructional explanations, the many diagrams and the pleasant presentation make this endgame book an interesting publication for club players with a rating from 1600."

100 Endgames: Vital Lessons for Every Chess Player

It is already helping me in all my chess, not just endgames, as i now understand much more clearly how different pieces dance together to add new effective qualities and resources to my game. De la Villa does the job quite well. He emphasizes the practical and prefers understanding to memorization." Jesus de la Villa's book comes highly-recommended by a coach (a Russian IM) whom I approached about this question. It is refreshingly focused on making your study time as productive (in terms of decisive game results) as possible. If you really have no patience for endgames, at least read Jesus de la Villa's '100 Endgames You Must Know'."The greatest strength of the book: breaking things down into well-worded chunks of easily digestible information." As you said, 7-men Lomonosov built since last edition, and probably 7-men tablebase revealed that some analyses wrong. Former Women’s World Chess Champion Alexandra Kosteniuk] said she had really enjoyed De la Villa’s 100 Endgames You Must Know and had made flashcards out of the 100 positions. One side of the card had the position, the solution was written out on the reverse, and she quizzed herself until she knew all 100.” - Elisabeth Vicary, USCF Online The bad news is that, all the same, the endgame technique of most players is deficient. Modern time-controls make matters worse: there is simply not enough time to delve deep into the position.

The 100 Endgames You Must Know Workbook: Practical Exercises

Chess books are best when you follow the lines. Unless you have a great visual memory, you should have a physical board. Having spent quite a few hours with the book now it seems like a perfect match for the training power of chessable. I remember going over some of these endgames before at various times in my chess career and in varying detail. However, without training them I only vaguely remembered how to handle the situations. By going through these endgames now, with training, in the same amount (or less) overall time I'm much more confident that if I face them over the board later on I will have the most important patterns/ideas fully internalized and am much, much more likely to win or hold a game based on them. I read and worked through the entire book on Chessable (the new interactive edition) https://www.chessable.com/endgame-boo... - I highly recommend it to chess players of all levels, but if you are a beginner, intermediate or casual player just start with Chapter 1 and 11 only. The others are more theoretical endgames that will probably not come in your games for a while. There’s not much to say about it – you just have to buy it and read it! De la Villa does a truly wonderful job of explaining useful endgames in a calm and measured manner that is clear enough for any strength of player to understand while still being interesting for stronger players. If you’ve never read an endgame book before, this is the one you should start with.” - GM Matthew Sadlerve always known that this book is supposed to be one of the best practical endgame books to study. However, I don't own it and haven't looked into it until now. Former Women World Champion Alexandra Kosteniuk] said she had really enjoyed De la Villa's '100 Endgames You Must Know' and had made flashcards out of the 100 positions. One side of the card had the position, the solution was written out on the reverse, and she quizzed herself until she knew all 100."