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Book Review: Practical Chess Endings

Practical Chess Endings. Paul Keres. Batsford. 1984. First published in West Germany, 1973. English translation first published 1974. Reprinted 1977 — first paperback edition. First algebraic edition 1984. ISBN 0 7134 4210 7.

This is the best endgame textbook I have ever read. I think it was Jonathan Levitt who remarked about this book something along the lines of, "it's a bit dry, but if you want a laugh, read Kingpin". Well, quite! It won't do as a first endgame book, despite the initial chapter on such basic endgames as K + Q v K; but as an extensive, though not exhaustive, course in chess endgame theory with a consistent bias towards those positions most likely to occur in play, I would say it is well-nigh indispensable.


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