The Chess Endgame Study the plates are perhaps the

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Reprint of the Yale University Press

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The Chess Endgame Study the plates are perhaps theThe endgame study, like the chess problem, eliminates over the board competition to concentrate on an invented endgame position carefully plotted to fox, bewilder, challenge, and otherwise stimulate the solver. Unlike problems, studies do not stipulate the number of moves to the solution; they demand a greater knowledge of endgame theory, thus becoming useful tools for actual players while giving "studyists" self contained epiphanies of compositional