Snape: Chess Endings Made Simple Damen Gambit Philidor & Minor Defenses

Philidor & Minor Defenses

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Snape: Chess Endings Made Simple Damen Gambit Philidor & Minor DefensesMost chess players are all too painfully aware of how many half points and even full points they squander due to poor endgame play. However, they tend to imagine that improving their endgame play involves a massive amount of study of dry technical positions, and prefer to spend their time on other aspects of the game, perhaps in the unrealistic hope of avoiding endgames entirely. In this book, Ian Snape helps them to tackle endgames with more