Endgame Combinations - Jacek Gajewski, Jerzy Konikowski

Book in Polish. Soft cover. 192 pages.

The combination is the most beautiful element in a chess game and consists of a forced variation containing a material sacrifice. It is encountered in all phases of the royal game: in the opening, middlegame, and endgame.

In the book, the authors drew attention to the non-obvious fact that concepts usually associated with the opening stages of a chess game – such as strategy, tactics, motif, chess combination – also apply to the endgame. (tips). Of course, in the middlegame of a given position, the player has more opportunities to encounter the issues mentioned due to the number and variety of pieces on the chessboard.. However – as can be seen in numerous examples included in this book – the endgame is not devoid of them either. Readers who pick up Combinations in the endgame will find here:

discussion of the 32 most common tactical motifs in the endgame in various material and piece configurations and 192 practical examples for independent training;

set of 300 items (varied in terms of difficulty level and subject matter) for checking knowledge of tactical motifs and the mechanisms of their practical use, among others in pawn, rook, queen, and heavy-piece endgames;

a total of 492 tips for self-training along with solutions.

Jacek Gajewski, world record holder noted in the Guinness Book of Records for the longest chess marathon (December 15–17, 2017, Katowice, 50 hours, 1 minute and 7 seconds). He is a co-author of chess books together with Jerzy Konikowski and Jan Przewoźnik and the author of scientific articles about chess.

Jerzy Konikowski, chess master and experienced first-class coach. In the years 1978–1981, he was the coach of the national team of the Polish Chess Federation. Under his direction, the women's team won a bronze medal at the Olympics in Malta in 1980.. He is a recognized chess theorist. His numerous professional books and articles were published in Poland, Germany, the USA, Spain, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Russia, Luxembourg, Denmark, and Italy.