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Capablanca's Best Chess Endings: 60 Complete Games by Irving Chernev (Paperback, 1982)

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Chess endings have an immediacy lacking in chess endgame or chess problems: endings are not theoretical or composed, but actual board positions, the point in every game when the superfluous falls away, leaving only the essential. Jose Raul Capablanca (1888-1942) had no need for isolated artistic theory or compositions - he composed and created chess art as he played. All of his genius - intuitive, tactical, strategic, logical - all of his art shines clearest in his endings, as he himself was proud to declare, advising others to study them carefully. In order to improve your game, he said, you must study the endgame before anything else; for whereas the endings can be studied and mastered by themselves, the middle game and the opening must be studied in relation to the endgame. The best way to follow Capablanca's advice is through this - the only book devoted to his great endings, 60 complete games emphasizing the grand finale but annotated throughout.Irving Chernev communicates in his notes the mystery and wonder as well as the delight in discovering again and again the original, fertile mind of chess's greatest born player. Virtuoso, exquisite, profound, inspired, elegant, and fiendish ingenuity describe match and tournament games and endings against Alekhine, Steiner, Marshall, Nimzowitsch, Lasker, Reti, and others, the best in the contemporary chess world. Capablanca's eleventh game in the 1901 Cuban championship (which he won, aged 12) surpasses any accomplishment by such other prodigies as Morphy, Reshevsky, and Fischer. From age 12 through the last game in the book (nearly four decades later against Reshevsky at Nottingham, 1936), Capablanca fashions endgames in tense tournament atmosphere that seem like delicate, precise instruments dreamt at leisure.Here then is the essence of Capablanca, analysed for the instruction of players and the pleasure of chess connoisseurs. Included are indexes of openings, themes in the endings, and opponents, as well as a bibliography and record of tournament and match play. Capablanca: for players, the epitome of the endgame; for readers, a classic chess study.

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Dover Publications Inc.
ISBN-13
9780486242491
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Book Title
Capablanca's Best Chess Endings: 60 Complete Games
Author
Irving Chernev
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Board Games
Publication Year
1982
Number of Pages
299 Pages

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215mm
Item Width
137mm
Item Weight
336g

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Irving Chernev
Series Title
Dover Chess
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States

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