Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual

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Mark Dvoretsky; Artur Yusupov. Secrets of Creative Thinking: School of Future Champions 5. Olms. ISBN 978-3-283-00519-1.

Still no ChessBase Account? learn more > My Games – Access your games from everywhere. Store your games, training material and opening repertoire in the cloud. Annotate, analyze and share. We formulated Bähr's rule (1-126) more clearly, and we mentioned the exceptions to the rule. Which, by the way, was not an easy task. A bit like formulating and proving a mathematical theorem. Here, Alex and I had long discussions until we were both satisfied. This was a bit like working with Mark – we always reached a solution we all could agree on. And Rausers's drawing zone (4-2) is introduced in its full form to make it clearer. It is obvious that having dug up this oldie but goldie from the ChessBase catalogue that the recommendation will be a whole-hearted one. After all, the quality of the material, and the obvious ease-of-use to instantly have the positions set up in front of you, with the chance to enter your own notes, consult an engine, and more, make it a wonderful way to study the book.

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I consider Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual an absolute must for every chess professional, and no less important even for a club player... I always recommend this book... I consider it to be one of the very best chess books published in recent times and I am very pleased with the new enhanced edition..." Who stands better? White intends to play c2-c3, obtaining an outside passed pawn, which will secure him a decisive advantage (for example, after 1...c5? 2 dc+ K×c5 3 c3). Another question. I have only played chess actively (like really started booking up and playing hours every day) for three months. You might think I'm making up that I actually do know endgame up to the class A section but I do. Let's say you belive me, would you think it is a waste of time for me to buy any endgame book? Maybe put more effort into a tactics book? Allthough (I have analyzed alot of my games) I do lose most of my games in the endgame. I generally come out of the opening with advantages because I have good opening repertoir. Middle game is ok I think. Equally noteworthy has been his long-time collaboration with fellow Muscovite Artur Yusupov. Yusupov attributes much of his chess success to Dvoretsky's training methods and at his peak became number three in the world (behind Kasparov and Karpov) and reached the semi-final of the World Championship Candidates Tournament on no fewer than three occasions. They have published books together and even established a chess school in the 1990s, turning out many of today's top-flight grandmasters. Dvoretsky and Yusupov's students have included Peter Svidler, Sergei Movsesian, Alexey Alexandrov, Vasily Yemelin, Inna Gaponenko, Ilakha Kadymova, Ela Pitem, Vadim Zviagintsev, Vladimir Baklan, and Peter Kiriakov.

Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual ... may well be the chess book of the year... [It] comes close to an ultimate one-volume manual on the endgame." - Lubomir Kavalek in his chess column of December 1, 2003 in the Washington Post. In the foreword to the fifth edition, Vladimir Kramnik, an outstanding endgame player himself, describes Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual as one of the best books that were recently published. He claims that it is a book for professionals and amateurs alike. Is he right, is the Manual an endgame book for everyone? Some chapters (for example, those on pawn and rook-and-pawn endings) are quite long while others are rather short. Chapter length does not reflect the relative importance of a kind of endgame; rather it has to do with the richness of ideas and number of precise positions required for full understanding.The schemata and the most instructive endgames are represented by color diagrams as well. Plus, important rules, recommendations and names of the important tools are given in bold italics. I am sure that those who study this work carefully will not only play the endgame better, but overall, their play will improve. One of the secrets of the Russian chess school is now before you, dear reader! From the Foreword to the First Edition by Grandmaster Artur Yusupov Of course, it does not often happen that a precise position from the book appears on the board. But your endgame technique is certain to improve, as well as your defensive abilities. The fact is, if you know which theoretical endings you should enter and which you should not, depending on the result you are trying to achieve, this is a tremendous help in making the correct decisions in many other endgames not covered here.