Utdrag fra Yasser Seirawans forord

It would seem that Daniel has taken a great deal of the above and gone much further in the journey of self-discovery of complex endings than I ever did. In deed, while he has studied and annotated, for him self, his own games, he has also realized that much could be gained if he applied him self to studying complex endings of other players as well. The result, this work, may be described as a collection of adjourned end game positions featuring some recent games where adjourned play is no longer practised.

This book is there fore like a throw-back experience for me. Adjourned positions can some times be com pared to a ‘photo’. When we see a familiar old photo we can be immediately transported back to another time and space, when the photo was taken. Experienced players see a diagrammed position and are similarly transported back to when the game was played. Adjournments, like a photo, have a habit of evoking memories of a distant moment. Some times the memory is funny, with amusing anecdotes, re call of the lines, and anal y sis which is joyous at times but on occasion painful. Always productive, always rewarding for those who make the effort to study the material.

In this work I particularly like the way Daniel has done his best to guess at and articulate the ‘thoughts’ of the players as they might be imagined. This verbalization of how ideas and plans are conceived by the players, together with the author’s hind sight and fore sight, is extremely valuable, making study of the subject-matter far more useful and easy for the reader. For this we should be grateful, and Daniel can be proud.

INNHOLDSFORTEGNELSEN:

• Preface by Yasser Seirawan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
• Chapter 1: What Are Complex Endings?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
• Chapter 2: Rook Endgames. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
• Double Rook Endgames. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 26
• Single Rook Endgames. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
• Chapter 3: Rook + Minor Piece(s) vs Rook + Minor Piece(s) . . . . 75
• Rook + Bishop vs. Rook + Bishop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
• Opposite-Colored Bishops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
• Same-Colored Bishops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
• Rook + Bishop vs. Rook + Knight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. . 112
• Chapter 4: Queen Endgames. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 139
• Chapter 5: Queen + Minor Piece(s) vs Queen + Minor Piece(s).. . 169
• Queen + Bishop vs. Queen + Bishop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
• Opposite-Colored Bishops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
• Same-Colored Bishops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . 193
• Queen + Bishop vs. Queen + Knight . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . .. . . . . 211
• Queen + Knight vs. Queen + Knight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
• Chapter 6: Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . 275
• Theme 1: Weaknesses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
• Theme 2: Passed Pawns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . 280
• Theme 3: Passive vs. Active Defense . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . 282
• Theme 4: Deep Calculation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286
• Theme 5: King Activity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 289
• Solutions to Exercises. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
• Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 300
• Bibliography. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
• Index of Players . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302