do you have the encyclopedia of chess endings
Encyclopedia of Chess Combinations
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Oct 23, 2025
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Civilization-II wrote:
do you have the encyclopedia of chess endings
A couple volumes. Not all.
Nov 17, 2025
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Is it related to yhe book "encyclopedia of middlegames" of 1980?
Nov 18, 2025
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how does this book compare with Lazslo Polgar's "5334 puzzles combinations and games?". which one is more "complete" (as though there is such s thing)?
Nov 18, 2025
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Polgar’s book has 600 miniatures with sacrifices on specific squares. 100 with sacrifices on h7/h2, 100 on g7/g2, and so on. Most of the rest are composed mate in twos bracket by a few hundred each mate in ones and mate in threes.
Encyclopedia of Chess Combinations consists almost entirely of positions from games with tactical shots organized by themes.
I received my copy of the Encyclopedia of Chess Combinations, 5th ed. (2014) last week. Here's a position from the book: http://chessskill.blogspot.com/2015/03/sacrifice-everything.html.
Books on tactics:
just replying to this almost 10 year post to say cameras almost 10 years ago werent so bad
That photo was taken with my old iPhone 5 that had some dirt inside the lens. It was replaced several times since that photo was taken. This was taken with my iPad Air just now.