Bishop Endings
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Yellowed
A cornerstone of endgame theory, Bishop Endings is an authoritative and exhaustively detailed treatise on one of chess's most nuanced and technically demanding phases of play. Written by Yuri Averbakh — one of the Soviet Union's most celebrated grandmasters and endgame theorists — this volume, part of the prestigious Contemporary Chess Endings series, systematically instructs the reader on the principles, patterns, and precise calculations required to master bishop endgames, covering everything from same-coloured and opposite-coloured bishop scenarios to complex pawn structures. Averbakh's analytical rigour is legendary in chess literature, and this work stands as a definitive reference that has guided generations of players from club level to grandmaster. His methodical approach presents each ending type with clarity and depth, illustrating the key theoretical positions that any serious student of the game must know. Translated by Mary Lasher for an English-speaking audience, the work retains the precision and authority of the original — leaving the reader with the unsettling and thrilling sense that there is always one more subtlety left to uncover.
Author: Yuri Averbakh
Format: Hardback
Published: 1977, B. T. Batsford Limited London
Genre: Reference & language
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Yellowed
A cornerstone of endgame theory, Bishop Endings is an authoritative and exhaustively detailed treatise on one of chess's most nuanced and technically demanding phases of play. Written by Yuri Averbakh — one of the Soviet Union's most celebrated grandmasters and endgame theorists — this volume, part of the prestigious Contemporary Chess Endings series, systematically instructs the reader on the principles, patterns, and precise calculations required to master bishop endgames, covering everything from same-coloured and opposite-coloured bishop scenarios to complex pawn structures. Averbakh's analytical rigour is legendary in chess literature, and this work stands as a definitive reference that has guided generations of players from club level to grandmaster. His methodical approach presents each ending type with clarity and depth, illustrating the key theoretical positions that any serious student of the game must know. Translated by Mary Lasher for an English-speaking audience, the work retains the precision and authority of the original — leaving the reader with the unsettling and thrilling sense that there is always one more subtlety left to uncover.