Название: One Endgame Study in a Thousand
Авторы: Gady Costeff
Издательство: a2
Год: 2024
Количество страниц: 112, формат A5
Sample pages here.
От автора: FIDE’s motto, We are one family, is the central theme of this book.
The chess culture and knowledge composers possess has been absorbed from our predecessors through their studies, articles and books. When we develop their ideas, we are collaborating with them across time, and when we invent new ideas, they will be developed by those who follow us.
I selected a single study out of roughly one thousand published every year. I repeated this for every year of FIDE’s existence, 1924–2024, resulting in a high-quality retrospective.
The studies are accompanied by commentary about specific ideas, composers, and the general development of studies over time. To make this book easy to use, I have limited each study to a single page. To underscore the family theme, I have limited composers to a single study.
Each study has at least three diagrams across the page. This allows the reader to see the progression of the solution in the diagrams, rather than try to translate text to moves and then visualize the result. The solution is highlighted, and side variations have been largely removed. This was done partially for clarity, and partially by necessity to fit everything on a single page.