Pawn Endings

Author: Averbakh, Yury Lvovich (1922- ) and Ilya MaizelisYear: 1974Publisher: B T Batsford, LtdPlace: LondonDescription:xi+318 pages with diagrams and index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's purple cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. Translated by Mary Lasher from the Russian edition. (Lusis: 1106) First British edition.Translation and revision of selections from Shakhmatnye okonochaniye edited by Yuri Averbakh, Moscow, Fizkultura, 1956-62 in 3 volumes. A revised and updated translation of the first volume of the Russian treatise. The examples have been renumber in a simpler form (than the Russian edition) with many new examples added; these changes are listed in a comparative index. This is the first volume in end game series by Averbakh. The present work, already established as a classic in it Russian edition, is by far the most complete work on pawn endgames ever published. Containing no less than 911 examples it will prove invaluab