A comprehensive work about the magic world of endgames.For starters, 100 interesting and instructive examples on important endgame topics are thoroughly analyzed and extensively commented. Especially those in which not only many useful rules of thumb are ex- plained and illustrated, but above all their not uncommon exceptions.In the chapter 'Practice makes perfect', 100 exercises give the readers the opportunity to check their previous knowledge and what they have learned in the first part.In the following 100 exciting studies, it was ensured that they do not show any artificial constructs,...

Man verrät nichts Neues mit der Feststellung, dass die meisten Spieler bei Weitem lieber angreifen, als sich zu verteidigen. Auch ist es nicht verwunderlich, dass sich verschiedenste Autoren schon seit mehr als einem Jahrhundert in etlichen Büchern dem populären Thema 'Angriff' gewidmet haben.In diesem Buch versucht der Autor nunmehr, die stets wiederkehrenden Mechanismen des Angriffsspiels so kompakt wie möglich darzustellen, indem er sich auf eine begrenzte Anzahl wichtiger Motive sowie die Beschreibung typischer Bausteine der Angriffsstrategie beschränkt. Zur Vertiefung werden...

It's not revealing anything new that most players prefer to attack rather than defend. It's also not surprising that various authors have devoted a number of books to the popular topic of 'attack' for more than a century.In this book, the author tries to present the constantly recurring mechanisms of attacking play as compactly as possible by limiting himself to a few important motives and describing typical elements of the attacking strategy. Numerous clear and meaningful rules of thumb are formulated for the in-depth study of the various subject areas.With regard to practical play, however,...