King and Pawn Endings

by Jon Edwards

Overview

Our Chess is Fun endgame course will involve three e-books. Here's the first on king and pawn endgame. All chess players should learn these basic positions, making sure that if they emerge from a long game that they will be able to take advantage of all that remains. Readers will learn here about the rule of the square, the opposition, the distant opposition, dealing with rook pawn, self-supporting pawns, and the importance of emerging with an outside passed pawn.

Unlike many other inexpensive chess e-books, these are fully annotated in understandable, simple language. The profuse use of diagrams make these among the first chess books that you can read WITHOUT A BOARD at your side.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013847750
Publisher:	Chess is Fun
Publication date:	12/13/2011
Series:	Chess is Fun , #5
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	814,537
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Jon Edwards won the 10th United States Correspondence Championship in 1997 and the 8th North American Invitational Correspondence Chess Championship in 1999. His correspondence ICCF rating of 2580 places him in the top 200 correspondence chess players worldwide.

He has written more than a 20 chess books, notably including The Chess Analyst (Thinkers Press, 1999) which chronicles the success in the US championship, Teach Yourself Visually: Chess (Wiley, 2006), a photographically based chess primer, and Sacking the Citadel: The History, Theory, and Practice of the Classic Bishop Sacrifice (Russell Enterprises, 2011).

He is also web master of Chess is Fun [www.queensac.com], a popular chess instruction web site that receives more than 100,000 hits a week.

Jon provides chess instruction in the Princeton, NJ area. He has taught chess to more than 1,500 students over 30 years.