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The World's Most Boring Chess Book: The Isolated D-Pawn in the Endgame

The World's Most Boring Chess Book: The Isolated D-Pawn in the Endgame

Rogers, Ian
Hazai, Laszlo
Gelfand, Boris

Paperback

ChessGeneral Board Games

Publisher Price: $24.95

ISBN10: 1963885015
ISBN13: 9781963885019
Publisher: Russell Enterprises
Published: Feb 12 2025
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Excellent Ennui!

Chess, so the theory goes, takes 10,000 hours of practice to master. Clearly not all of those hours will be enjoyable and studying 80 endgames featuring a specific isolated pawn is definitely not in the fun category. This is where The World's Most Boring Chess Book comes in.

What The World's Most Boring Chess Book lacks in entertainment, it makes up in examples explaining how to push for a win in an endgame where one side is saddled with an isolated pawn, and how to defend against such efforts. The commentary which accompanies the deep analysis, makes the subject accessible but never easy: even the endgames with just kings and pawns are surprisingly challenging.

Isolated pawns are one major type of technical position. One can find oneself in such a position from many different openings, or at the end of a middlegame or endgame battle. Hundreds of fascinating games have been played with an isolated pawn and Rogers and Hazai deeply analyze 80 of them in this book... [A] reader will learn which pieces it is better to exchange, when one can wait patiently, and when one needs to look for active counterplay... If you are not shy about working diligently and want to improve your technique, then this book is for you! - From the Foreword by Boris Gelfand

Many chessplayers are uncomfortable in positions which have an isolated d-pawn. With the help of the authors, you will come to embrace these positions, whether on offense or defense. What excellent ennui!

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