Alexey Alexeyevich Troitzky (1866-1942) is considered to have been the greatest composer of chess endgame studies ever. To call him a genius is to trivialize hi

Thorough discourse and rigorous analysis, enlivened by wit, offers a classic exposition of the endgame. Commentary, statistics, and more than 400 studies have b

Solving studies is well established as an effective method of chess improvement. In Practical Chess Beauty one of the world's greatest study composers shares hi