Strategy in the Chess Endgame

Oak Tree Press, 1964. 128pp.  Well bound.  No inscriptions.  Descriptive notation.  Foxing to front and back end paper.  Dj has been selotaped to book and this has discoloured badly.  Rubbing and scraping to dj.

In chess, the endgame is the stage at which all loose ends are tied up and all accounts settled.  It may seem to be the easiest part of the game, for many exchanges have taken place and only the Kings, some Pawns and a few pieces are left.  Yet the very simplicity of the game creates problems.  In this book Fred Reinfeld - a chess player and writer of international renown - shows that endgames, for all their diversity, can be reduced to a few dominant themes - understanding of which make it possible for the first time for the aspiring player to master the strategy of the endgame in all its complexity.