1001 Chess Endgame Exercises for Beginners

The tactical exercise book that also improves your skills in finals

The best place to start your tactical training is in the finals! Chess is 99 percent tactical, and if you want to win more games, nothing works better than practicing tactics. Win a piece or find the mate. That'll get you results.

Since most of the pieces are off the board, the tactics at the end have the clarity that allows you to grasp all the basic concepts quickly and completely. At the end of the game, you can concentrate on what's important without being distracted by a couple of pawns and random pieces.

In "1001 Chess Endgame Exercises for Beginners", MI Thomas Willemze does two things at once. It explains all the basic concepts and provides you with a wealth of exercises for each subject and each chess piece. Willemze uses all his experience as a coach and his familiarity with the famous Step Method to carefully develop his chess knowledge step by step. It shows you the strength of all the pieces, from the lone pawn to the all-powerful queen. And it guides you from the basics to more complex tactics in a highly instructive puzzle race.

Thomas Willemze is an international teacher from the Netherlands. He is an experienced coach of amateur players at all levels and has been National Youth Coach of the Dutch Chess Federation. New In Chess has published his books The Chess Toolbox and The Scandinavian for Club Players, both very well received by both critics and customers.