Capablanca's Best Chess Endings Contributor(s): Chernev, Irving (Author) |
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ISBN: 0486242498 ISBN-13: 9780486242491 Publisher: Dover Publications OUR PRICE: $16.16 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 1982 Annotation: These 60 complete games, annotated throughout, emphasize the Cuban master's elegant, classic, accurate, lethal endgame play against Alekhine, Lasker, Marshall, Nimzowitsch, Re ti, the best. Here are real games from match and tournament play, with endings that seem like long-contemplated works of art. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Games & Activities | Chess |
Dewey: 794.124 |
LCCN: 81017311 |
Series: Dover Chess |
Physical Information: 0.61" H x 5.38" W x 8.45" (0.73 lbs) 320 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Chess endings have an immediacy lacking in chess endgame or chess problems: endings are not theoretical or composed, but actual board positions, the point in every game when the superfluous falls away, leaving only the essential. Jos Ra l Capablanca (1888-1942) had no need for isolated artistic theory or compositions -- he composed and created chess art as he played. All of his genius -- intuitive, tactical, strategic, logical -- all of his art shines clearest in his endings, as he himself was proud to declare, advising others to study them carefully. In order to improve your game, he said, you must study the endgame before anything else; for whereas the endings can be studied and mastered by themselves, the middle game and the opening must be studied in relation to the endgame. |