by GM Lev Alburt with GMs Palatnik & Pelts 408pp. (CIRC 2000)
The Comprehensive Chess Course by Lev Alburt has established itself as one of the great instructional series available today. Just the Facts!is the seventh and final volume of this best-selling series that brings English readers the once strictly guarded and time-tested Soviet training methods, the key to the 50-year Russian dominance of the chess world. It boils down all essential endgame wisdom into one volume you can use to win games for the rest of your life. (Unlike opening variations, endgame knowledge is immutable.) The principles of the endgame are very different from those in the opening or middlegame - some rules even reverse themselves! Just the Facts! gives you the ideas and the ability to recognize when to apply them. This is an outstanding endgame manual for beginning and intermediate players!
Review On Dec 23, 2004by John Exeter of Nashville, TN
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This entire series by Lev Alburt is quite good, but this may be the best of the bunch. If you have limited time and want to win more, go through this book and then repeat as necessary. Very good practical tips and instruction on the endgame.
Review On Apr 27, 2005by Bill Conrad of Los Angeles, CA
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Excellent! Well-written, instructive, well-organized, and not overburdened with esoteric positions that most of us will rarely, if ever, encounter. Lev's writing is mostly directed at the amateur player, which probably makes up the bulk of the chessbook-buying market, and he delivers his message very well. This book is excellent, and well worth the price. This fish...er, B-player, recommends it unqualifiedly to anyone wanting an understandable endgame book.
Review On Apr 17, 2006by Steven B. Dowd of Birmingham, AL
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This really is *the* endgame book for those wanting to learn their endgame basics. If you master this text, there are plenty to move on to, but get this one first! You will not regret it. The book is pedagogical without being pedantic, an excellent "teaching book."
Review On Dec 15, 2006by Adam S. of Lakewood, OH
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No need to have a chessboard in front of you to play through these examples. The variations a short, to the point, and very instructive. The exercises at the end of each lesson are well matched to the lesson and are the right diffuculty level for the intended audience.
Only a few chess players work at chess to the best of their abilities.
Boris Gelfand
Puzzle Answer
1.Rd7! Bxd7 2.Qxd7 Qb6+ 3.Kh1 Re8 4.Rxe7! Rxe7 5.Bd6 Qxd6 6.Qxd6+- Gelfand-Salov, Madrid 1996 (Source: Anthology of Chess Combinations)
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