Good Russian stuff,
I have them all they are excellent reference books especially the one on Rook Endings that he co-wrote with Nikolai Kopayev I consider it the most valuable book on the subject along with Jozsef Pinter's book 1000 Rook Endings and the one by Victor Kortchnoi Practical Rook Endings.
The entire series is high quality it can't recommend it enough if you want books that will last years and provide years of study.
Thanks Alec, I've read somewhere that large parts of the analysis has been proved wrong with the advent of computers, do you know if that's true or not? I like the look of the books and it's reassuring you rate them so highly.
I have all of them (in Russian, I bought them dirt cheap decades ago). They are of great encyclopaedic vaule, and hardly something more than that.
Thank you Pfren. What I deduce from that is they are probably not the best resource for a student trying to improve their endgame?
Thank you Pfren. What I deduce from that is they are probably not the best resource for a student trying to improve their endgame?
Try Shereshevky's "Endgame Strategy", and Minev's " A practical guide to rook endings" (rook endings are the big majority of endings you will encounter in a chess game).
Both books are excellent.
A sincere thank you for your recommendations Pfren. I think I'm still interested in Averbakh's books but may defer purchasing these until after the two you've suggested.
Has anybody read these books (there are 5) and would you recommend them?