Overview

Jesus de la Villas worldwide bestseller 100 Endgames You Must Know successfully debunked the myth that endgame theory is complex and that endgame books are tedious. Reviewers praised its clarity and completeness and thousands of players dramatically improved their endgame understanding (and their results!). In recent years, De la Villas students sometimes complained that when they had to apply what they had studied in 100 Endgames, they didnt always have the material ready at their fingertips. De la Villa then made an important discovery: most of the errors his students made are being made by others as well, even by strong and sometimes famous chess players! De la Villa started collecting training material and selected those exercises best suited to retain and improve your knowledge and avoid common errors. In this book the Spanish grandmaster presents hundreds of exercises grouped according to the various chapters in 100 Endgames. Solving these puzzles will drive home the most important ideas, refresh your knowledge and improve your technique. This book contains a massive amount of clear, concise and easy-to-follow chess endgame instruction. The advice De la Villa gives in the solutions is practical and useful. Ideal for every post-beginner, club player and candidate master who wishes to win more games.

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The book's concept works very well. The solutions do not just consist of variations, but explain the most important themes to the point. The selection of exercises offers an excellent overview of typical endgame difficulties. --Dirk Schuh, International Master I Love this book! In order to master endgame principles you will need to practice them. The 100 Endgames You Must Know WORKBOOK provides 300 practical examples to reinforce the endgame theory that you learned in the 100 Endgames You Must Know book. The book will improve your calculation and visualization skills and build a deeper understanding of the value of the pieces and their cooperation. I am certain that this book will not just improve your endgame but your chess level in general. --Han Schut, National Master Chess.com

A wealth of material which will serve to reinforce the lessons presented in De la Villa's seminal work. If you wanted more material to help master the technique of, say, rook and pawn against rook, it can be found here, in abundance, and amongst some hundreds of exercises for the reader to solve. --CHESS Magazine Challenges the reader with examples and puzzles that have their basis on the instructional material in the original book. This is a very good book. --Carsten Hansen American Chess Journal De la Villa has chosen his material carefully and explains things well. A careful study of this book will pay definite dividends for players from 2000 on up. --John Donaldson, International Master Definitely a book to have for those who are interested in improving their chess. And of course one should also have the first book of the series. I believe these two books are all one needs to learn all types of frequent endgames encountered in tournament practice. They can also be used by coaches or teachers in schools for giving the students interesting positions to solve, or homework. --Davide Nastasio Georgia Chess News Hundreds of diagrams with training material and extensive explained solutions. It's obvious that De la Villa's two books will serve all chess teachers extremely well. --B.H. Wilders Nederlands Dagblad The perfect supplement to De la Villa's manual. To gain sufficient knowledge of theoretical endgames you really only need two books. You start with studying The 100 Endgames You Must Know Workbook. --Herman Grooten, International Master Schaaksite The right way to enhance your endgame technique. --Gary Lane, International Master Chess Moves Magazine Very good are the extensive explanations with the solutions, which directly refer to the theoretical endgames. --Jeroen Bosch Schaak Magazine I Love this book! In order to master endgame principles you will need to practice them. The 100 Endgames You Must Know WORKBOOK provides 300 practical examples to reinforce the endgame theory that you learned in the 100 Endgames You Must Know book. The book will improve your calculation and visualization skills and build a deeper understanding of the value of the pieces and their cooperation. I am certain that this book will not just improve your endgame but your chess level in general. --Han Schut, National Master Chess.com The book's concept works very well. The solutions do not just consist of variations, but explain the most important themes to the point. The selection of exercises offers an excellent overview of typical endgame difficulties. --Dirk Schuh, International Master

The perfect supplement to De la Villa's manual. To gain sufficient knowledge of theoretical endgames you really only need two books. You start with studying The 100 Endgames You Must Know Workbook. --Herman Grooten Schaaksite Very good are the extensive explanations with the solutions, which directly refer to the theoretical endgames. --Jeroen Bosch, International Master Schaak Magazine A wealth of material which will serve to reinforce the lessons presented in De la Villa's seminal work. If you wanted more material to help master the technique of, say, rook and pawn against rook, it can be found here, in abundance, and amongst some hundreds of exercises for the reader to solve. --CHESS Magazine Challenges the reader with examples and puzzles that have their basis on the instructional material in the original book. This is a very good book. --Carsten Hansen American Chess Journal De la Villa has chosen his material carefully and explains things well. A careful study of this book will pay definite dividends for players from 2000 on up. --John Donaldson, International Master Definitely a book to have for those who are interested in improving their chess. And of course one should also have the first book of the series. I believe these two books are all one needs to learn all types of frequent endgames encountered in tournament practice. They can also be used by coaches or teachers in schools for giving the students interesting positions to solve, or homework. --Davide Nastasio Georgia Chess News Hundreds of diagrams with training material and extensive explained solutions. It's obvious that De la Villa's two books will serve all chess teachers extremely well. --B.H. Wilders Nederlands Dagblad The right way to enhance your endgame technique. --Gary Lane, International Master Chess Moves Magazine I Love this book! In order to master endgame principles you will need to practice them. The 100 Endgames You Must Know WORKBOOK provides 300 practical examples to reinforce the endgame theory that you learned in the 100 Endgames You Must Know book. The book will improve your calculation and visualization skills and build a deeper understanding of the value of the pieces and their cooperation. I am certain that this book will not just improve your endgame but your chess level in general. --Han Schut, National Master Chess.com The book's concept works very well. The solutions do not just consist of variations, but explain the most important themes to the point. The selection of exercises offers an excellent overview of typical endgame difficulties. --Dirk Schuh, International Master

Author Information

Jesus de la Villa (1958) is an International Grandmaster born in Spain. He has won the Spanish Championship twice and is a well-known chess coach. De la Villa is the author of the world-famous bestseller 100 ENDGAMES YOU MUST KNOW.

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