Yuri Lvovich Averbakh is the world's leading authority on chess endings He was born February 8, 1922 in as born in Kaluga, Russia. He was chairman of the of the USSR Chess Federation from 1973 to 1978. He is 98 years old and is the world's oldest chess grandmaster.
Peter Hugh Clarke was an English chess player, who held titles of FIDE master (FM) and International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster (1980), FIDE International arbiter (1976), Chess Olympiad individual silver medal winner (1956).
Peter Hugh Clarke was born 18 March 1933. He started playing chess at the age of six. He twice won the London Boys' Chess Championship (1950, 1951). He was British Chess Championship multiplier participant where five times he won silver medal.
Peter Hugh Clarke worked as a chess journalist in the newspaper Sunday Times and magazine British Chess Magazine. He is known as the biographical book's author of Mikhail Tal (1961) and Tigran Petrosian (1964). Thanks to his good knowledge of Russian language, he translated the book about Vasily Smyslov in 1958. In 1963 he wrote a book 100 Soviet Chess Miniatures.
Peter Hugh Clarke played for England in the Chess Olympiads. He died 11 December 2014 at age 81.
This book was first published in 1960 by the Soviet State Publishing House of Physical Culture and Sport. It had been reprinted many times by different publishers.
Averbakh is the editor in chief of the five volume set Comprehensive Chess Endings in both English and Russian.
Comprehensive Chess Endings Volume 1 Bishop Endings Knight Endings ISBN 4871875032
Comprehensive Chess Endings Volume 2 Bishop Against Knight Endings Rook Against Minor Piece Endings ISBN 4871875040
Comprehensive Chess Endings Volume 3 Queen and Pawn Endings Queen Against Rook Endings Queen Against Minor Piece Endings ISBN 4871875059
Comprehensive Chess Endings Volume 4 Pawn Endings ISBN 4871875067
Comprehensive Chess Endings Volume 5 Rook Endings ISBN 4871875075
Although all of the endings in this book are essential, some are more essential than others. The most essential essential endings are the Rook and Pawn against Rook endings starting on page 71. These you must learn if you hope to advance in chess, as they come up all the time.
