The first Russian edition of this series (1956-62) established the editor, Soviet grandmaster Yuri Averbakh, as one of the greatest world authorities on endgame theory. Comprehensive Chess Endings is a translation, in algebraic notation, of the second Russian edition, which has been considerably revised and enlarged. It is being published in five volumes, each volume being designed to be used either as a textbook or as a reference work for the analysis of adjourned games.
In each section the aim has been to give an exhaustive coverage of basic positions with a small number of pawns, and to show the typical ideas in more complicated positions with a larger number of pawns. One chapter, devoted to corresponding square systems, has been written by the chess composer M. Zinai - a great specialist in the field of pawn endings.
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