Monster Your Endgame Planning Volume 2

78 nye sluttspilltester for leseren. Her er de materielle situasjonene generelt i ubalanse, og så gjelder det å finne beste vei til seier eller remis, ut fra tre alternativer som presenteres.

Sluttspill er som kjent viktigere enn noen gang å håndtere bra! Grivas er en kyndig guide og pedagog.

Fra forordet:

With this book-series I have sought to provide a training guide that will be helpful mostly to players in the 1500–2200 range — corresponding to a low-er club level up to those with aspira-tions for a FIDE title. Of course, the books may well also be useful for players weaker than 1500, or for those stronger than 2200, but this is a decision these players should make for themselves!

In this book there are 78 tests, each based around a game. In each of these tests, the starting point is the fi rst dia-gram. There is an evaluation of t he diagrammed position, which helps the reader to understand some impor tant facts about the position itself. A presentation of three possible plans follows. Then the reader must decide which is the most valuable/best plan. The best plan receives a maximum of 50 points. The other, less good, bad or indiff erent plans normally receive some points or none at a ll, depending on their actual value and correctness.

After completing the work on each test, the reader must take a look at the solution, where he can find the answers. In the solutions, the game is analysed until its end, so the reader can better understand why the re-warded plan was the ‘best’ in the position and how it worked out.