Description: The state of Arizona is under a stay-at-home order which is making our shipping difficult. We are extending our shipping limit to 20 days. We hope to ship in less time, and we hope soon to be back to our old policy of ten days. We ask for and hope for your patience.Alexandre Alekhine, the fourth world champion, once boasted "to defeat me you must win three times: you must beat me in the opening, in the middlegame, and in the endgame." Golfers know the phrase "drive for show and put for dough." Chess is the same way. The great dividing line between masters and amateurs is that masters rarely lose; they know when danger threatens and then they head for the safe harbor of a hard-to-hold but defensible ending. Look at the crosstable of any major international tournament and you will see that most of the games are draws for this very reason. Jesus de la Villa, a Spanish grandmaster, has put together 100 endgames any aspiring master must know and must know by heart. There is no room in the endgame for error. Beth Harmon's hero, Jose Raoul Capablanca, rarely studied the opening, but he sat down and memorized 900 rook-and-pawn endings. "In the opening if you make an error there is still time to catch up, " he said, "but in the ending one lost move turns a win into a draw or a draw into a loss." He should know. In his career he only lost 35 games. Softcover, algebraic notation. If you are a fan of the Netflix series The Queen's Gambit, this book is for you. This is the type of book Beth Harmon would buy. We combine shipping! To combine, place all your purchases in the shopping cart and press "proceed to checkout." This comes from the private library of Allan Troy, late owner of Troy's Chess Shoppe, Torrance, California. Follow us! We have an ongoing sale of 18th, 19th, 20th, and 21st century chess books, sets, and clocks! Some persons are impersonating us! Please check our store to make sure these goods are from us! Accept no substitutes!
Price: 215 USD
Location: Tubac, Arizona
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
Subject: Games & Puzzles
Special Attributes: Dust Jacket
Book Title: 100 Endgames You Must Know : Vital Lessons for Every Chess Player
Item Length: 9.2in
Item Height: 0.7in
Item Width: 6.7in
Author: Jesus De Louisiana Villa
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Chess
Publisher: Continental Sales, Inc.
Publication Year: 2016
Genre: Games & Activities
Item Weight: 16.8 Oz
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
