{"product_id":"9784871875066","title":"Comprehensive Chess Endings Volume 4 Pawn Endings","description":"Comprehensive Chess Endings is a five volume master work by one of the world's leading authorities on the Chess Endgames, Grandmaster Yuri Averbakh.\u003cp\u003eThis series was originally published in Russian as Шахматные окончания.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIshi Press has published the Russian Language version of volume 2. That is Averbakh Chess Endings Bishop against Knight, Rook against Minor Pieces ISBN 4871875024. We will try to reprint the other volumes if we can ever find them, as they are difficult to obtain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese English versions are direct translation from the Russian except that the order of the volumes has been changed. The contents are exactly the same, other than the translation from Russian to English.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese volumes in this series were first published in the Soviet Union in 1954 with a blue hard cover. It was reprinted with modifications in 1981-1983 with a soft orange cover.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the third reprinting of the English translations. It was previously published in English by Batsford in 1975-1977 and by Pergammon in 1981-3. Each time, the order of the volumes has been changed. Here we are following this order:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eComprehensive Chess Endings, Volume 1, Bishop Endings, Knight Endings ISBN 4871875032\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eComprehensive Chess Endings, Volume 2, Bishop Against Knight Endings, Rook Against Minor Piece Endings ISBN 4871875040\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eComprehensive Chess Endings, Volume 3, Queen and Pawn Endings Queen Against Rook Endings Queen Against Minor Piece Endings ISBN 4871875059\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eComprehensive Chess Endings, Volume 4, Pawn Endings ISBN 4871875067\u003cbr\u003eComprehensive Chess Endings, Volume 5, Rook Endings ISBN 4871875075\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn earlier series of the same books had a different order. There the order was 1: pawn endings 2: bishop and knight endings 3: bishop vs knight; rook vs minor pieces 4: rook endings 5: queens endings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause of the popularity of these books, they have become rare and difficult to obtain. After a worldwide search we still have not been able to obtain a copy of volume 5. We had even began to suspect that it was a phantom book, a book that had been planned and announced but never actually published, but we have been assured that it does exist. However, we are not sure. When we actually see one, we will believe it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEven the Russian language original editions of this book are difficult to obtain, although 100,000 were printed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ishi Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50099370655984,"sku":"9784871875066","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9784871875066","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}