Practical Chess Endings: With Modern Chess Notation Paperback – September 4, 2018

This book is so good that I can finish in 2 weeks time. Tremendous improvement in my game.

Very direct and no fluff. This is my favorite endgame study book (so far).

great examples , great explanation . lots of diagram (850+ ) . So almost 5 diagrams in 2 page on avg .

I can't understand how a 2089 player can say this book is no good. Keres was one of the strongest players in the world and as a teacher, chess annotator and author was unsurpassed. His games are among the most impressive and technically accurate. All his books are of very high quality, and this one is NO exception. This book is complete, methodical, clear and the section on rook endings in outstanding. Anyone who reads this book conscientiously will reap handsome dividends. Keres's book is NOT for the TOTAL beginner, but for someone who has a rudimentary notion of endings, i.e., a beginner who has read books like Learn Chess, Vols., I and II by Alexander, for example, which introduces the notions of the endgame. After that, this book is ideal.Keres was a master of the endgame, and this book shows it through and through. I highly recommend it. Once mastered it will raise your rating by at least 100 points.

As a FM who first read this book when I was pre or early teens, I couldn't disagree more with the reviewer who found this dull. Rather, this great master of attack goes through a number of pawnless endgames, pawn endgames, and those where each side has no more than one piece. There are many basic positions as well as examples from practical play. For endgames with more pieces, go to Fine's "Basic Chess Endgames" or for more advanced material try Shereshevsky's "Endgame Strategy". But for an introductory endgame book, this is pretty good.The book by the same name by Chernev is not so practical, comprising endgame studies, which doesn't mean it's not pretty good anyway.

This is not a book that promise You the quickest way to master the Endgame, but with hard work and good discipline You will get Your REWARD ! It would be an insult for this extraordinaryMaster of playing chess to sell cheap ideas. Paul Keres did understand this very well ! His book is very efficient and it's up to You to make it amusing by getting the Best out of it. Step by step You will notice Your progress.A good result after hard work is always amuzing !arielmar2001 - Ingemar Ariel LINDGREN

Nice new edition of the Kere's classic. I had the older version with descriptive notation but the new gets a decisive advantage with algebraic notation. You just can't follow rook and pawn endings, or most of the other endings, with the old notation. The Batsford also sports larger type size, and more than double the number of diagrams -- which makes it handy for bathroom reading. This is a book that really makes endgame study enjoyable, especially some of the obscure endings like R vs B. It's about the level of candidate master.

I had hoped to replace my lost copy of this classic which was said to have been updated with "Modern Chess Notation". I understood this to mean it was updated from the original English Descriptive Notation to the standard Algebraic Notation. Nope--the Kindle version has the notation in the wretched Figurine notation which is doubly difficult to see due to poor contrast of the piece drawings. I returned this.

Compré este libro en su edición de 1983, todavía Batsford utilizaba la notación descriptiva. Es una maravilla de libro. Al utilizar el ordenador, los libros actuales a veces ofrecen variantes más difíciles de entender por el cerebro humano. Y comprobando con las bases de SYZYGY, es fenomenal la precisión del análisis. Por supuesto, algún error hay, pero compensado ampliamente por el razonamiento 'humano' del autor. Pasé de ser un desastre en finales a jugarlos con mucha soltura...

Well written and highly detailed. Must have classic!

Ein Klassiker, der wirklich für die ersten Jahre gut ausreicht, wenn man ihn denn wirklich studiert. [Hier noch vier Wörter.]

A superb book. It's much more enjoyable to read than Basic Chess Endings by Fine. The Batsford editions are easy on the eye, with beautiful typesetting and plenty of diagrams. This is my favourite endgame book by a big margin.

It is a very good book with a lot of details ,but there is something that I do not like at all -descriptive notation. I am not use to and it make it very difficult to read. Beware of description on the amazon which is " This is the first algebraic edition" Wrong.