Queen & Pawn Endings
by:
Yuri Averbach (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780713430417 (0713430419)
Publish date: June 28th 1976
Publisher: Hippocrene Books
Pages no: 144
Edition language: English
Why is Smyslov and Levenfish's Rook Endings a masterpiece, but this book only so-so? Is it the exposition or the subject-matter? Averbakh was certainly a great endgame expert, and the book is quite competently put together. Yet, for whatever reason, I can't feel any trace of enthusiasm.(A day later)...