365 Selected Endings , one for each day of the year/365 Ausgewahlte Endspiele, eines fur jeden Tag im Jahr

Author: Whitaker, Norman Tweed (1890-1975) and Glenn E Hartleb inscribed by the authorsYear: 1960Publisher: Self published by the authorsPlace: Lauterbach and HeidelbergDescription:unpaginated with diagrams and index. Duodecimo (7" x 4 1/4") bound in original publisher's green pictorial wrappers with errata laid in. Inscribed by the authors. First edition.This is certainly a useful book, worthy of study. The endgames come from a variety of sources. Some were played over-the-board in grandmaster tournaments. Others are compositions. Only a few were composed by Whitaker or Hartleb. The rest are by major composers such as Grigoriev and Triotzky. One good thing is that, unlike other collections in which the problems are so difficult that nobody could ever solve them, many of these endgames can be solved by normal humans. Only a few are easy to solve, however. There is obviously a program to set aside a few hours every day to study one of the end games. The answers are in the back. The answ