Chess Endgame Study (eBook)

A. J. Roycroft (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
384 Seiten
Dover Publications (Verlag)
978-0-486-81628-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Thorough discourse and rigorous analysis, enlivened by wit, offers a classic exposition of the endgame. Commentary, statistics, and more than 400 studies have been completely revised and updated by the author.

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The endgame study, like the chess problem, eliminates over-the-board competition to concentrate on an invented endgame position carefully plotted to fox, bewilder, challenge, and otherwise stimulate the solver. Unlike problems, studies do not stipulate the number of moves to the solution; they demand a greater knowledge of endgame theory, thus becoming useful tools for actual players while giving "e;studyists"e; self-contained epiphanies of compositional art. A. J. Roycroft, founder of the Chess Endgame Study Circle and editor of its magazine EG, presents this complete introduction to the endgame study. Roycroft writes the history of endgame study with its international roster of great theorists and composers; he directs an encyclopedic discourse to all varieties of chess lovers — casual solvers, composers and connoisseurs, analysts and judges; and he offers over 400 endgame studies dating from ninth-century Arabia to the present. All studies, from the transparent to the endlessly complex, are annotated with genial wit and spirit. Roycroft devotes much coverage to definition, classification, and retrieval of published endgame studies, providing his own modification of the Guy-Blandford system. He also investigates motivation and creativity, summing up with a grand apologia on chess as game, science, and art.

Autor

In1959 Londoner Arthur John Roycroft was awarded the prestigious title of International Judge of Chess Compositions. He is also the founder of EG, the only publication to focus exclusively on endgame studies.

Inhalt

Foreword by Dr. Jonathan PenroseAuthor's PrefaceAcknowledgmentsNote on the Algebraic Notation I. THE INTERESTED1. Casual Solver2. Regular Solver3. Friend, or Curious Enthusiast4. Impresario II. THE PRACTICAL1. Majority Player2. Advanced Player3. Cook Hunter: Friend or Fiend with Microscope4. Analyst, or Seeker after Truth III. THE SERIOUS1. Connoisseur, or Critic2. Judge, or Mandarin (includes Glossary)3. Composer4. Apologist Diagram Retrieval Key and DirectoryPersonalitiesIndex

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.10.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 140 x 140 mm
• Gewicht: 467 g
• Themenwelt: Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Spielen / Lernen ► Abenteuer / Spielgeschichten
• Schlagworte: Bishop • Checkmate • Chess • Endgame • Knight • pawn • ROOK
• ISBN-10: 0-486-81628-1 / 0486816281
• ISBN-13: 978-0-486-81628-9 / 9780486816289