Fundamental Chess Endings

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Squizen

Hello guys. Is " Fundamental Chess Endings " book still fresh and correct in the era of computer analysis ? Are those tactics and strategies correct after 16 years from published. We have much stronger computers now, which could give us better answers in many examples. Thats why im not sure if this book still have correct knowledge about playing chess endgames.  Thanks for answers happy.png

IMBacon22

Its an excellent book, and i use it all the time.  Dont get caught up in the "stronger engines" thing.  Engines are bad at endings.  Its endgame table bases that are used to check endings.  

Squizen

Thanks mate for answer

IMBacon22
Squizen wrote:

Thanks mate for answer

Glad to help, and good luck!

jambyvedar

This is a great endgame book.

kindaspongey

"... the stronger you are the more you will get from [Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual]. In my own teaching to average players I am still using Mueller and Lamprecht's Fundamental Chess Endings, which has a wonderful balance between Encyclopaedic coverage (I can find almost anything), examples that can be shortened at most points, and clear explanations that bring together endings of the same sort. To me it provides a simpler method for giving students both information and a sense of why they are proceeding as they are. In either case, it seems to me, a teacher's guidance is preferable, but lacking it I would like to see students learning the fundamentals in a systematic and comprehensible way." - IM John Watson (2005)

http://theweekinchess.com/john-watson-reviews/the-end-game-comes-before-we-know-it

Squizen

Thanks guys. Im going to buy it. Greetings happy.png

kindaspongey
ABulletsWar wrote:

... what was the results if i understand it about 40%

Here is a sample from Fundamental Chess Endings:

http://www.gambitbooks.com/pdfs/Fundamental_Chess_Endings.pdf

It might be worthwhile to consider starting with Silman's Complete Endgame Course.

http://theweekinchess.com/john-watson-reviews/theres-an-end-to-it-all

https://web.archive.org/web/20140708103149/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review594.pdf

Yokahu
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