A Matter of Endgame Technique

The most hated cliché in chess is: And the rest is a matter of technique. In A Matter of Endgame Technique Grandmaster Jacob Aagaard deals with one of the few things chessplayers hate even more – losing a winning position. No serious chessplayer is new to the misery of spoiling hours of hard work in a few minutes... A Matter of Endgame Technique offers the second-best happiness – the misfortune of others – as well as deep explanation of the underlying patterns of how and why we misplay winning endgames. At just under 900 pages, this hardcover book is actually six books in one, explaining the technical and practical areas of chess endgames plainly, simply and deeply. Endgame theory is well covered elsewhere; this book is all about technique and devoid of material to memorise.

About the Author :
Grandmaster Jacob Aagaard won the British Chess Championship at his first and only attempt. He has received the Guardian, ECF and ChessCafe Book of the Year awards and the FIDE Senior Trainer title.

Review :
"With A Matter of Endgame Technique Jacob Aagaard has again proved convincingly that he is one of the best chess authors of the modern times. The book is really 5 books in one and you should really look at the examples carefully and first try to understand them yourself and only afterwards look at Jacob's instructive explanations. He always gets to the heart of the matter and explains clearly why he has selected the example and what is the most important point of it. In this way you will understand the endgame phase much better, which will improve your chess immensely." -- GM Karsten Müller "The quality of the book is in the explanations and analysis… Aagaard writes fluently and well. As an experienced trainer he brings out the learning points clearly… Aagaard writes, 'I am of the firm conviction that chess is a difficult game to play, but not too difficult to explain once you have analysed the games thoroughly'. In respect of end games, Aagaard has fully achieved this aim." -- Ray Edwards, Jovanka Houska & Sean Marsh, ECF judges naming "A Matter of Endgame Technique" as Book of the Year, full review "Every now and then, a chess book comes along which simply demands attention. A Matter of Endgame Technique certainly falls into that category – and for a variety of reasons… The chapters have exercises, from 'easy' to 'brain crusher' and an absolute goldmine of highly instructive illustrative examples of endgame play. It is hard to imagine how much time and effort has gone into creating this extremely impressive book. It is monumental, a real tour de force." -- Sean Marsh, CHESS magazine "A beautiful timeless book. With countless beautiful, practical and instructive examples. The book is richly illustrated with diagrams so that you can train yourself (without a board) in visualizing variants. What else can I say about it? Well, it may seem like an expensive book, but of course it isn't given the enormous content." -- Michel Hoetmer, Schaakblog.nl