Nunn's Chess Endings Volume 2 - Softcover

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The definitive work on practical endgame tactics

In this major two-volume work, which won the English Chess Federation's Book of the Year prize, renowned endgame theoretician John Nunn teaches the skills that are most important to success in practical endgames.

Going beyond standard texts, Dr Nunn shows how to apply knowledge of standard endgames to find the right methods in tricky real-life practical situations - even when they differ greatly from the idealized forms given by traditional endgame manuals.

• Identifies new and important motifs which occur repeatedly in over-the-board play
• Tactical elements are heavily featured
• In many examples, previous analysis is corrected
• Focuses on endgames that are susceptible to concrete analysis
• Geared to the over-the-board player - no composed or artificial positions
• Ideas underlying analysis - however complex - are richly explained in words.

Nunn shows that lack of familiarity with key ideas can cause important ideas and themes to be missed even by very strong players. We discover that a staggering amount of previously published endgame analysis is simply wrong, and that many of the standard guidelines are at best partially true.

This second volume focuses on rook endgames - the most common and important category of practical endgames. Nunn also covers endings with rooks and minor pieces, a wide and rich area of strategic endgame play that is universally recognized as vital for chess mastery, but nevertheless neglected in chess literature.

Dr John Nunn is one of the best-respected figures in world chess. He was among the world's leading grandmasters for nearly twenty years, winning four gold medals in chess Olympiads and finishing sixth overall in the World Cup in 1989. He is a much-acclaimed writer, whose works have won 'Book of the Year' awards in several countries. In 2004, 2007 and 2010 Nunn was crowned World Chess Solving Champion, ahead of many former champions.

"The book is in many respects different and better than the majority of the other books on the endgames where often the inspiration of the author languishes after a few chapters. ... the reader undoubtedly takes profit even from a passive or lazy reading: so great is the way the author explains complex positions making them easy and appealing to any range of audience" - Martin Eden, SoloScacchi

"Here endgame guru John Nunn takes on those really bitchy rook, and rook and minor piece, endgames. Together with the well-regarded volume one, this is everything a chessplayer needs to know." - Bab Wilders, Nederlands Dagblad

"this series by Nunn not only teaches the knowledge necessary to play most endings at the international level, but inculcates the habits of calculation, imagination, and integration of themes necessary to performance in the highest-stakes portion of any chess game. A valuable approach to training, an indispensable guide to the endgame, and another remarkable achievement for John Nunn." - Derek Grimmell, ChessCafe

"a work which astonishes ... time after time in this book we see world-class grandmasters trading mistakes in highly simplified positions. In short, another fabulous work by the Doctor, and a volume nobody who loves the endgame would want to be without" - Steve Giddins, British Chess Magazine

"Features instructive practical examples ... I stumbled across an interesting encounter of mine (Adams-Shirov, Linares 1997). I actually annotated the game myself some years ago, but passed over much of the endgame section including the key moment without comment. Having read the book this doesn't seem like such a bad idea, as other players' comments are mercilessly corrected, but my sin of omission was even worse as is revealed..." - GM Michael Adams, Daily Telegraph

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