Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual Fast Track Edition

Faktisk en kortversjon av Dvoretskys legendariske sluttspillmanual, etter hans død redigert av Karsten Müller og Alex Fishbein. Her er både teori og praksis systematisk presentert, og treningsoppgaver.

En verdifull bok for dem som ikke har den større originalboka til Dvoretsky og antagelig et riktigere valg for spillere med ratingnivå cirka 1300 - 1900. Enda en glimrende sluttspillbok som har kommet de siste årene. Men sluttspillet er også som kjent viktigere enn noen gang for praktisk spill i våre dager.

Forlagets egen omtale:

The FastTrack to Endgame Expertise!

Since it first appeared in 2003, Dvoretsky’s Endgame Manual has been acclaimed as the best single volume ever written on the endgame. With staggering depth and accuracy, it clearly reveals the secrets of this most important stage of the game.

One of the unique characteristics of the Endgame Manual has been the highlighting of text considered to be essential to the understanding of endgame theory. The late, great trainer Mark Dvoretsky carefully selected the text to be highlighted so that players at all levels could benefit from this monumental work.

Now in its fifth edition, the 440-page manual may seem somewhat intimidating to some readers. With that in mind, German grandmaster Karsten Müller and American grandmaster Alex Fishbein – both recognized endgame experts in their own right – have collected the highlighted text from the fifth edition and presented it so that the core concepts might be more readily available.

The result is Dvoretsky’s Endgame Manual: FastTrack Edition. As noted by Australian grandmaster Ian Rogers in his foreword:

“I am very pleased that Dvoretsky’s Endgame Manual: FastTrack Edition has come along. It is eminently suitable to sit in an amateur player’s library as their only endgame book, and equally good at preparing a serious student for many other fine endgame books – not forgetting of course the storied father of this volume, Dvoretsky’s Endgame Manual."

If you are serious about studying endgames, have a limited amount of time, or are simply looking for a convenient way to improve your play in endgames, the FastTrack Edition may just be the book you have been looking for.

Innholdet:

005 Introduction by Karsten Müller & Alex Fishbein

007 Foreword by Ian Rogers

009 Signs, and Symbols

010 Chapter 1 Pawn Endgames

040 Chapter 2 Knight versus Pawns

045 Chapter 3 Knight Endgames

049 Chapter 4 Bishop versus Pawns

052 Chapter 5 Opposite-Color Bishops

060 Chapter 6 Bishops of the Same Color

070 Chapter 7 Bishop versus Knight

081 Chapter 8 Rook versus Pawns

087 Chapter 9 Rook Endgames

141 Chapter 10 Rook versus Knight

148 Chapter 11 Rook versus Bishop

158 Chapter 12 Queen Endgames

167 Chapter 13 Queen versus Rook

175 Chapter 14 Other Material Relations

188 Chapter 15 General Endgame Ideas

204 Chapter 16 Solutions