Book Description
For all chess-players - from beginners to grandmasters, and whatever their style of play - one thing is certain: rook endings will arise in a great many of their games. Yet it is precisely in this area of the game that many players give away hard-earned points, either through lack of knowledge or inadequate understanding. Previous books on the subject have been extremely technical and theoretical, and therefore of little use to the practical player. This one is different. John Emms provides the essential specific knowledge, and explains the key concepts, that will enable readers to find the right plan in most common types of rook ending. Rook endings are reached in roughly one in five of all chess games. This volume provides everything you need to know to play rook endings successfully. The author is a battle-hardened professional player, himself the veteran of hundreds of rook endings.
Customer Reviews:
Just one Word.......2007-09-26
If i was forced to use just one word for this book, the one and only word that comes into my mind is 'PRACTICAL'.
Use it or lose it. (My experience.).......2005-10-19
I have Fine's BCE for about 20 years, then last year I bought Muller's FCE to keep up with theory. Both of them are too heavy-duty for my class-C level, they are useful some on specific positions. I got Averbakh's Essential as the bridging stone to reach Fine's and Muller. I felt that I needed some focused book for each type of endings, so I got this one. The author said that the frequency of R ending type is about 20%. I guess he's right; therefore it's important to study this type. I have some sad stories about this type of endings.
1) I once reached a double-rook ending with pawns (my 7 vs. player A's 5) on both sides of the board. I had P-majority on both sides. Besides enjoying the advantage and waiting for my opponent to resign, I was also clueless about what to do next. I spent nearly 20 min to meditate and figure out how to progress. Finally, I started moving 3 P's on K-side to attack his 2. With my 5 minutes vs. his 30 min, we entered the blitz chess. Wisely he kept enough pieces to keep the position complicated. He won when my flag fell.
2) One day, this player A obtained a position in single Rook Ending. He got four Pawns on the K-side, his opponent (player B) had 2 on the Q-side; the Kings were on the rear of their own Pawns. So far so good. Player B had his K on second rank, while player A had his K on the back-rank! Player A kept giving useless checks and ignored advancing his un-opposed Pawns. Player B cleverly advanced his K and Pawns at every opportunity. To our horror, player B got his Pawn and R to the 7th and his K was right behind them. And we know the rest of the story.
3) Then later against player A, I again had a single R ending with my 7 vs. his 5 P's. Now I carelessly advanced my P's on the K-side without any preparation to restrict his K on the Q-side. With more active K and R, he got his P to the 7th rank first. I was forced to trade R for his new Q. We reached a new endgame with his R vs. my 2 P's. The rear P was useless. Thanks to his far advanced K in my side, his R now was forced to pin my 7th rank P or give perpetual check. I was lucky to draw this.
Above 3 personal examples show that a little knowledge in R endings could save ½ point!
In this book, after introducing basic R endings (R vs. 1 or 2 P's and then the side with P(s) having a R of his own) in chapter 1, Emms provides 2 chapters on single R endings. Both sides have the same number of P's, and then one side has the advantage of one extra P. Chapter 2 is where P's are on one side of the board; and chapter 3, on both sides. Various P-types (passed, isolated and doubled) are carefully demonstrated. The techniques to attack and defend these Ps are clearly illustrated. Chapter 4 gives an elementary introduction to double Rs endings. Some important themes on how to handle this type are given. As we know multi-volume books covering this topic and single R have been written before. The difference is this time the positions in this book have been carefully checked with modern computer programs for their accuracy.
More than half of the positions in this book are from the GM games. A quick scan through them I see that they can happen in our C-level strength. I don't know how we produce them, :-). Nonetheless, with equal strength and careful play, C-players could reach R or Rs endings with 1 or 2 P imbalance. Studying this book surely gives us some fundamental techniques to handle them reasonably.
This book is very practical. It's more helpful to us, C-players, than Nunn's book. Nunn's is good for academic research. I wish I had taken time to study it before playing the above 2 games. Well, if I play 5 games without losing in the theoretical openings or tactical middle-games, I may have 1 chance to utilize the knowledge from this book. Hopefully, my opponents don't care much for endings, especially the R-type.
Very good........2004-04-10
Funny thing happened while playing internet chess the other night. After an evenly balanced struggle I entered a simple rook and pawn ending. I was a pawn up, but because I had read Survival Guide to Rook Endings by John Emms I knew straight away that the position was dead drawn. But after a confused series of (totally uneccessary) checks from my opponent, which actually drove my king to a much better location, a drawn position became a won one. Now the point is this: many players are strong in the opening and middle phase of a chess game but much weaker in endgame play. So as average players seeking to improve we should study the endgame. This will add greatly to our playing strength and enable us to win many more games.
All very well to hand out this trite advice, but look at most endgame books! No wonder the amateur player neglects to study them. Well, here is an exception. I'm pleased to say that Emms has authored a very readable guide to rook endings. His explanations of procedure are engaging and very understandable. Rather than presenting diagram after diagram to rote learn Emms gives us the conceptual tools for correct play. Further, Survival Guide to Rook Endings covers much more material than that required for mere 'survival'. Coverage extends well beyond an introductory level - I doubt I will need another rook book (though to be fair I am only a club player). Perhaps very strong players would find this book too basic but I have seen a big practical benefits from studying the material. Each chapter is logical, interesting and rounded off with excercises to help the reader practice. Previous to reading this book I had tried to teach myself rook endings from Kere's endgame book and Euwe's one as well. Both left me cold although both are actually very good chess authors - such is the difficult nature of the subject. Emms seems to have the magic touch however. I only wish I had a copy of Dvoretsky's acclaimed endgame manual so I could compare his handling of rook material with Emm's. All in all a fine effort.
Book Title = Book Contents.......2000-05-21
Basic rook endings, rook and pawn endings (pawns on one side of the board), rook and pawn endings (pawns on both sides of the board), and double rook endings: a very focused 160 pages! Material ranges from the classic Lucena/Philidor positions, to much more complex practical rook endings. I think The Survival Guide can be profitably used both by novices for a concise introduction to rook endings and stronger players (including masters) as a comprehensive review and reinforcement. I also feel that GM Emms presents the material in an interesting, informative and well-organized manner, and maintains his emphasis on practical rook endings. Agreeing that there are other rook endings books, I still believe that you are much more likely to read, enjoy and finish The Survival Guide than most other books.
Best Introduction to Rook Endings.......2000-01-22
This book is the best practical introduction to rook endings currently available. It should be useful for players rated anywhere from 1300 to 2300, but is probably targeted at average club players like myself, with a rating of 1800. While there are other rook endings books on the market - Nunn, Korchnoi, Smyslov and Levenfish, ECE - they're all rather esoteric and removed, to varying extents, from the concerns of a practical player. Emms gives one exactly what one needs to know. If one wants to pursue the subject further, one can consult one of the aforementioned tomes.
Customer Reviews:
Execellent book! But how practical is it?.......2005-10-13
Thanks to Dr. Ken Thompson's work, we have the standard 5-piece (also some of other simple) endgame database. Based on Dr. Thompson's database, Dr. John Nunn prepared a 3-volumn book-set that covers "almost all" 5-piece endings. Rook and Pawn versus Rook is the first of the set. Using the symmetric property, they are able to cut the workload to 25%. By writing from the white's point-of-view, who has material advantage, the work is cut by half; then by mirroring the Q-side and K-side, only work for the P on the Q-side is sufficient (another 50% reduction). The final positions are: a) white can promote the P (win), b) white wins black R (win), c) black can eliminate white P (draw) (and force trading R's.) The study starts with the P on the 7th rank to see if it's a win or draw. Then the P retreats one step to 6th rank, and continues all the way to 2nd rank.
A few years ago, I know only one R and P ending (Lucena position) and about four general rules:
1) Rook on the seventh is worth one (or even two) P-sacrifice.
2) Active Rook is important in the endgame.
3) The side with material advantage has "more" chance to win if he can cuts off the defending K.
4) The defender should get his K in front of the P; otherwise he has "less" chance to draw.
"More or less" are relative terms here. In this book, Dr. Nunn provides the "absolute truth" about this type of endings.
His work in this book is outstanding (5 stars). I wonders who could remember most of the analysis he gives in the book. He mentions that even Kasparov might have trouble to play this with such precision. So, how practical is the book? I don't see how the average players can see the practicality of this book (I can't), except for the practical tips Nunn gives at the end of every section. That's a good place to start. If we want simpler study, then Averbakh's Essential Chess Endings is another good start. My C- and B-players don't care much for simple endings; they like to play with pieces. This is where I have a little edge on them. The analysis from Nunn's ending set provides a good means for post-mortem discussion.
If you really want to know.......2002-06-18
This book is the absolute and final truth on rook and pawn vs. rook endgames. Another book will never need to be written. If you really want to know the truth on these endgames, then this is truly the book for you.
It's not as bad to read as a previous reviewer claimed. Of course, if you want to study rook endings more generally or less deeply, then this isn't the book for you. "Surviving Rook Endings" probably is--and it is a really good introduction. If you have any doubt, then you almost certainly want "Surviving" rather than this one.
Another great book by John Nunn.......2001-12-31
Half of all endings in chess consists of rooks and pawns. This book will improve your overall chess results. Just like a lot of endgame books, this book is an absolute essential due to the fact that the endgame determines whether you can win, lose or save a draw.
Another authoritative book by Nunn.......2001-05-13
I reccommend this book to any serious chessplayer. Nunn gives the low down on all rook versus rook plus pawn endings. Firstly, the information in this book is 100% accurate since a computer created the database. Any serious chessplayer would normally be looking for none other than the truth and in rook endings this is hard to come by. Secondly, Nunn demonstrates a fantastic concept known as reciprocal zugzwang. It turns out, assuming white is up the pawn, that in most positions, white to play wins while black to play draws. In a reciprocal zugzwang position, white to play draws and black to play loses. Hence, unlike normal zugzwang position where one color has a waiting move, reciprocal zugzwang positions offer neither color a waiting move (the easiest example you'll ever see is white- ka8 rb8 pa7 black- kc7 rc8). Lastly, the setup of this book is good too. Nunn starts with positions with the pawn of a7 and works his was to a2 (for obvious reasons). He then tackles b, c and d positions in the same way. To conclude, I did want to say that while this book contains all the information you'll ever need to know about this particular ending, the information will not seep into your brain from under your pillow. You will need to put in an obscene amount of time to get from cover to cover.
Useful Book for Players.......2001-04-20
This book is often touted as being the final word on K+R+P vs. K+R. I agree with this contention but I have to say that this book is more than a reference work. The basic methods of play are elucidated here as in no other text. Even the famous "Rook Endings" by Smyslov and Levenfish devotes only 47 pages to K+R+P vs. K+R. Other books just give Lucena, Philidor and some general methods of play. Anyone playing a rook ending has to constantly keep in mind the possibility of simplification to a simpler rook ending. Consequently, the material covered by Nunn serves as the building block for a rigorous study of rook endings in general. The book offers unparalleled insight and understanding. John Nunn, in the three books he has written on endings, constantly strives to translate computer results into ideas and insights palatable to the human mind. Every student of the game should have this book on his shelf.
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Customer Reviews:
Best Rook Endgame Book.......2005-01-05
This is a superb book. It's short easy to digest and contains just the right amount of detail. IT looks after key positions like Lucena and Philidor but also goes into the plans for
several key rook endings. Emms Survival guide to rook endings is more comprehensive but i much prefer this book
Variations or Ideas?.......1999-12-20
This book will not waste time on hundreds upon hundreds of tedious Rook and Pawn positions and variations. It will, however, give you the ideas on how to play these types of endings. Ideas are easier to memorize than variations - with the right idea, the correct variation will not be so hard to find. It even teaches how to play the "inferior" side of a rook ending. This book helped me improve not only my endgame play but also enhanced my game overall. Best buy for the buck. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
The most common of endings clearly explained!!.......1999-09-16
This book helped me to understand rook & pawn endgames like no other before it. I had previously read Pandolfini's Endgame Course, Capablanca's Chess Fundamentals, Tarrasch's Game of Chess, and Reassess Your Chess (which has a few pages on the subject). These are all good books. But I never fully comprehended rook endings until I read this book. I finally understand the Lucena & Philidor positions and Why They Are So Important. And much more... This book is cheap, short (only 70 pages), and chock full of extremely useful information. I am a strong B player and just beat my first expert due to this book!
Book Description
Victor Korchnoi, one of the greatest experts in the field of rook endings, now documents his own experiences in tournament play. His main purpose is to inspire readers with a deep interest in rook endings, and he promises that anyone who thoroughly masters the given material will raise his Elo rating by 100 points or more!
Customer Reviews:
Essential reading if you play in chess tournaments!.......2007-02-06
Rook endings are not always simple. Try to study rook endings with 7 (4x3) or more pawns and you'll see my point of view. It deserves a lot of experience to play them well. Korchnoi's mastery in these kind of endings and his explanations make this book a classic; this is not a book for beginers, though. If you're a newbie try first "Practical Rook Endings" by Mednis (a must-have, great book), "The Survival Guide to Rook Endings" by John Emms, "Starting Out: Rook endgames" by Chris Wards or "A Practical Guide to Rook Endings" by Nikolay Minev. I can't recommend Smyslov and Levenfish's book because it is full of blunders and quite confusing (I have to admit that I lost my time reading it)... Averbach's book is a rarity nowadays and "Encyclopaedia of Chess Endings"(Matanovic et al.,Chess Informant Series) is a pain to read (though helpful if you are a correspondence player)...
For advanced players I would also recommend some general ending software like those of Chess Assistant and Chessbase (specially Dvoretsky's Endgame "Manual" - it could be better named as "Treatise").
Very good book.......2005-10-18
Everyone knows Korchnoi is a fighter. But he's also a good author. I like his work a lot. A very useful book.
Customer Reviews:
Genuinely deserves 5 stars, impressive.......2005-01-30
Levenfish & Smyslov have written as impressive a chess book as I have ever seen. It looks like a Master's degree thesis written at a graduate university program in Chess (tho it is a lively read). It is a testament to the brain power and hard work of its authors.
The key to this book is its *progressive* teaching approach. KRP v. KR positions are discussed first. The pawn is discussed on an edge column like 'h', then on 'g', then 'f', then 'e'. Then the pawn is discussed on an early row like '4', then '5', '6', '7'.
Then KRPP v. KRP positions are discussed, with part of the discussion focused on how to *reduce* to a winning KRP v. KR position studied earlier.
The material is both advanced and not. It does go into extreme detail, but I never had any difficulty understanding the reasons for the moves, after I read the authors' explanations. So in that sense the material is not advanced. Yet there is so much detail, the kind grandmasters need to know, that I could never hope to remember it all a few weeks later. That is not the authors' fault, it is just the harsh truth about chess.
It is fun to understand deep endgame play, if only while reading the book. Thus this book is surprisingly entertaining and fun.
Perhaps the authors did not write the book for us, perhaps they wrote it for themselves, and then published it for whatever extra benefit that might bring.
This book also has an excellect summary Conclusion section, with 22 rules that may stimulate our memory of the sections we read. For flavor here are excerpts for some of those summarized rules:
"7. The possibility of sheltering the king from checks in the immediate neighbourhood of the passed pawn (the principle flight square) often determines the outcome of the game."
"10. A rook and two connected passed pawns generally win against a rook and passed pawn. If the passed pawns have reached the 6th rank there is the possibility of sacrificing the rook for the pawn, transposing into a won ending of..."
"11. With two disconnected pawns against one passed pawn important roles are played by the bridge and diversion."
The matial in this book can only be absorbed by numerous re-readings. If the endgame is the part of chess that excites you the most, or if you are a master who works hours per day at chess, then this book could help your tournament results.
For club players, this book is NOT over our heads. But for us the true purpose of buying this book is for enjoyment, and this it WILL provide. But this book is aiming for great depth in areas that might not be our highest priority, and it is demanding a lot of our time and discipline which we realistically cannot give.
I have the older Descriptive (yuk) notation edition of this book. If the 2002/05/05 claims by reviewer gm_extraordinaire that the newer algebraic notation edition contains too many errors, that could be a serious problem.
That problem could have been avoided by use of a more informative kind of algebraic notation, one that included the origin square. Such notation enables the reader to correct notation errors in the book. Since this book chose the nice format of displaying moves in two columns (White & Black), there is far more then enough space to include origin square info without the printer consuming any more pages.
Here is the Table of Contents:
English translation 1971, 224 pages, ISBN = 0 7134 04493, Descriptive (yuk) notation.
Preface
1. Introduction
-- The properties of the rook
-- King and rook v. king and rook
2. Rook and pawn v. rook
-- Defending king restrains the pawn's advance
-- Pawn on 7th: king is cut off
-- Pawn on 6th: king is cut off
-- Pawn on 5th: king is cut off
-- Pawn on 4th, 3rd and 2n ranks: king is cut off; defense by frontal attack
-- Rook's pawn
3. Rook and two v. rook
-- Connected pawns
-- Disconnected pawns
4. Rook and one v. rook and one
5. More pawns
-- Rook and two v. rook and one
-- Rook and two v. rook and two: Rook and three v. rook and two; Rook and three v. rook and three
6. Numerous pawns
-- Pawns on one wing
-- Extra outside passed pawn
-- One pawn advantage and better position
-- Material equality with positional advantage
-- Insufficient material advantage
-- Slight positional advantage
7. Conclusion
Bibliography
Index of Names
You do not want this algebraic edition, it is full of typos.......2002-05-05
Unfortunately, the earlier edition is the gem that you should get, which is also out of print.
This algebraic edition is FULL of typographical errors in transcription and you should not wish it upon your worst enemy.
As far as I know, no corrections were attempted on this one time revision...
The descriptive notation (e.g., 1.P-K4 N-KB3) is not as easy to read as the algebraic (e.g., 1.e4 Nf6) but this original work is STILL the best work on the subject, though with one or two errors or ommissions that Dvoretsky and others have discovered.
ALWAYS INSIST ON THE DESCRIPTIVE EDITION.
El final es el final............2000-06-23
El final mas comun es el de torres, tambien es tremendamente complicado y un error con ventaja puede ser una derrota y un acierto en desventaja puede significar vovler al juego e incluso ganar. Este libro nos muestra muchisimos diagramas que mas que memorizar hay que comprender y reconocer, por ejemplo las casillas criticas, el posicionamiento del Rey, los peones y su avance, etc. Se los recomiendo ya que es un libro que me ayudo a comprender mejor el medio juego para llegar al final.
Customer Reviews:
Very thoughtful of the time involved in chess........1998-05-12
Not that the author was Big Blue, but the impression left was one of serious-mindedness, caring of all moves but watchful of the strategic best.
I would read it again.
Book Description
"50 Leadership Lessons from the Greatest Manager of All Time" Today's rapidly changing global business arena has made undaunted leadership as fleeting as yesterday's software. Yet the wisdom of one reluctant leader -- Moses -- has grown more relevant with each passing millennium. In Moses On Management, Rabbi David Baron -- a nationally renowned spiritual leader and successful entrepreneur-draws surprising parallels between the world of Moses and our own. Through Bible passages, amusing anecdotes, interviews with visionary leaders, and his own insights, Rabbi Baron conveys fifty powerful lessons for today's business managers, including: -how to bring your staff out of the slave mentality -why negotiating face-to-face brings optimum results -why symbols of strength inspire extraordinary effort -why crises are an open door to change -- and empowerment -how to use the willing minority to motivate others -why it's essential to make your staff into believers -how to balance zero tolerance with 100 percent compassion In a time of downsizing, mergers, and increasing uncertainty in the market place, "Moses On Management" is an in valuable resource for finding and sustaining a deeply satisfying balance between life and livelihood.
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In today's rapidly changing global business arena, undaunted leadership seems as fleeting as yesterday's software. Yet the wisdom of one reluctant leader -- Moses -- has grown more relevant with each passing century. In Moses on Management, nationally renowned spiritual leader and businessman Rabbi David Baron draws surprising parallels between the world of Moses and our own, and conveys fifty wise lessons for the modern business manager, including: -- How to cure your staff of the "slave mentality" -- Why negotiating face-to-face brings optimum results -- Why symbols of strength inspire extraordinary effort -- Why crises are an open door to change -- and empowerment
Customer Reviews:
The real story suffers in this retelling.......2003-04-26
Moses is the mediator of the covenant between Israel and Yahweh. This is the first point lost when we try to think of Moses in terms of his management skills. Furthermore, Moses as a covenant head corresponds to Jesus as covenant head of a better covenant. Jesus intimates this sort of thing in Luke 24:27 where, "beginning with Moses" he told the disciples how all of the OT scriptures point to him.
The story of Moses is preparing us for Jesus, the One mediator who performs the true exodus (freeing his people from sin and death -- a power-set that is far more sinister than the Pharaoh!). The story of Moses is a part of the larger story of redemption; it is the story of God working out his salvation-will in the world in preparation for Jesus. To think about Moses in terms of management leadership lessons is to do harm to the real story that is taking place -- the freeing of humanity from the death-sin existence initiated by our first covenant head, Adam (by the way, Paul in Romans 5 and 1 Corinthians 15 calls Jesus the last Adam!).
Just as Moses took the people through water (the Red sea) and into the desert, so Jesus passes through the water of baptism on his way to be tempted by Satan in the wilderness (Matt 4). Just as Moses and Israel were 40 years in the desert, so Jesus was 40 days in the desert. Where Israel failed in their desert wilderness, Jesus succeeded (he overcame the temptations of the Devil). Jesus is the faithful Israel, and does what Moses and the people of God under the Cloud could not do. Moses himself was not permitted to enter the Promised Land because of his sin, whereas Jesus has entered the very presence of Yahweh because of his life of perfection (one might say that Jesus is the better Moses).
When we talk this way, we get closer to the idea of Moses than a book on "Moses as CEO" or "Moses as Model Leader." The real story of Moses suffers when its retelling is management focused.
I should mention, Moses did things that would discredit any leader of our day. He had Israel destroy the Midanites and take the women captive (see Numbers 31:1-18). Worse, modernly speaking, he had Israel [do away with] all the women captives that the men of Israel slept with. Not only that, he had Israel [do away with] all the male children of these killed women (yikes!) -- see Numbers 31:17. Now, obviously there is something theological going on here that transcends leadership-management models. If Moses is the greatest Manager of all time, then what should we do with managers who order the slaughter of used women and their children?
Obviously when we look at Moses as a management example, we risk skewing what is really happening in ancient Israel. Moses does not fit the model of a moral leader as we would define it (cf. Numbers 31 again), and so this book is a distraction to the real story of the Bible.
If one wants leadership lessons, that's fine, but don't use Moses out of context to do it. If one wants lesson on Moses, that's fine too, but don't use modern management categories as an interpretive grid. Let's leave Moses to the history of redemption and try to understand him on his own terms (standing as he is on the cosmic stage of salvation history). I don't think I am venturing too far when I say that Moses himself would have been perplexed by the modern mind that thinks of him in the small category of "Management."
As you read Baron's book, keep this critique in mind. Take away his good leadership advise, but be careful about taking away his understanding of Moses.
Late-Bloomer Managers.......2001-01-05
It is encouraging to those of us who have not been managers until late in life. I for one am not a manager yet. This book is an encouragement that God will use us to do great things if we only say yes. Moses is a man who stuggled deeply with the issues of the second chance. He finally said yes to Gods leadership and reluctently became a model for us to follow thousands of years later. Buy the book. Study the book. Learn the lessons.
I question the sub-title.......1999-11-07
How could someone who took 40 years to make an 11 day journey possibly be the greatest manager of all time?
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