[Mikhail Shereshevsky] Endgame Strategy

Endgame Strategy
M.I. Shereshevsky
translated by K P Neat

https://www.chessable.com/author/MikhailShereshevsky/

Pergamon Russian Chess Series

Pergamon Press / 1985

Foreword to the English edition (A. Yusupov)

Introduction

1. Basic principles of endgame play (S. Byelavyenets)
2. Centralization of the king
3. The role of pawns in the endgame
4. The problem of exchanging
5. "Do not hurry"
6. Schematic thinking
7. The principle of two weaknesses
8. The struggle for the initiative
9. Suppressing the opponent's counter-play
10. Positions with an isolated d-pawn
11. The two bishops
12. The 3-2 Queen-side pawn majority
13. Complex endings

Index of players

Index of material

M. Shereshevsky's book Endgame Strategy was published in the USSR in 1981.
The author, one of the strongest players in Byelorussia, has recently been working
as a trainer. In his lessons with young players Shereshevsky has made use of the endgame
teaching methods of one of the country's leading trainers, M. Dvoryetsky, and
has worked out a definite system.
This book contains an interesting selection of endings. Along with classic examples
there are endings both of leading modem grandmasters, as well as of less well
known players. The author aims in the first instance to explain the course of the
struggle, penetrate into the psychology of the players' actions, and to focus the
readers' attention on the turning points and characteristic mistakes. In contrast to
the majority of works on the endgame, the book is divided into chapters not according
to material, but according to the playing methods which are most characteristic
of the given group of endings. The names of certain chapters have an unusual ring:
"Do not hurry", "The problem of exchanging", "The principle of two weaknesses",
and so on. For this English edition the author has added a number of endings played
in recent times, as well as endings from games by the strongest English players.
The main value of the book, in my opinion, lies in the fact that it contains
specific advice and recommendations on how to improve endgame technique, for
which the practical player will sometimes search in vain when studying multi-volume.

Reference books on the endgame.

https://archive.org/details/endgame-strategy

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