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A revision of the original reference for serious students includes the game's latest innovations and reflects an adaptation to algebraic notation, focusing on aspects of game endings that occur most frequently while providing hundreds of illustrative diagrams. Original.

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This is the definitive work on the endgame, which all serious students of the game have been waiting for. It is a prodigious feat of chess scholarship, presented to the reader in clear, pithy language, full of telling phrases that will linger in the memory and rise to aid the harassed competitor just when he needs it most.... The authoritative reference work on the subject.... Reuben Fine's book is indispensable. <br>-- The New York Times <br> Grandmaster Fine has done a brilliant piece of work. There is no doubt that it will receive the recognition of the entire chess world. <br>-- M. M. Botvinnik

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"REUBEN FINE was an International Grandmaster and one of the world's greatest chess players ever. His books, including ""Basic Chess Endings ""and ""The Middlegame in Chess,"" are among the all-time classics of chess literature. PAL BENKO, reviser, is a Grandmaster who has been twice a candidate for the World Championship. He has finished atop eight U.S. Chess Opens, and has achieved an outstanding record in chess olympiads as a player and as a team captain."

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