Unge IM Daniel Naroditsky slår til med en personlig bok om komplekse sluttspill, definert som sluttspill der en ikke kan basere seg bare på sluttspillteori, og må benytte generelle temaer for å finne løsningene.
Han bruker i boka mange eksempler fra sin egen erfaring, som han selvfølgelig kjenner best, men også gamle og nye sluttspill av mange ulike mestere. Mer enn i andre sluttspillbøker får vi verbalt ta del i forfatterens (spillerens) mange tanker rundt stillinger og valg av trekk, fra en som i utgangspunktet ikke sitter på toppen med suveren oversikt over alle sannheter. Samtidig oppsummerer han på en tydelig måte konklusjonene sine og mange praktiske råd for leseren.
En litt annerledes og nyttig sluttspillbok for spillere med ratingstyrke fra omlag 13-1400 og opp i eliteklassen.
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
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