Author: Averbakh, Yury Lvovich (1922- ) and Ilya Maizelis
Year: 1974
Publisher: B T Batsford, Ltd
Place: London
Description:
xi+318 pages with diagrams and index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's purple cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. Translated by Mary Lasher from the Russian edition. (Lusis: 1106) First British edition.
Translation and revision of selections from Shakhmatnye okonochaniye edited by Yuri Averbakh, Moscow, Fizkultura, 1956-62 in 3 volumes. A revised and updated translation of the first volume of the Russian treatise. The examples have been renumber in a simpler form (than the Russian edition) with many new examples added; these changes are listed in a comparative index. This is the first volume in end game series by Averbakh. The present work, already established as a classic in it Russian edition, is by far the most complete work on pawn endgames ever published. Containing no less than 911 examples it will prove invaluable both to the student of chess and in the practical player.
Condition:
Tape stains to paste downs, some sunning to covers. Jacket price clipped. A very good copy in a near fine jacket.
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