100 Endgame Patterns You Must Know: Recognize Key Moves & Motifs and Avoid Typical Errors

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Introduction
Chapter 1 Pawn endings
Pattern 1 The distant passed pawn
Pattern 2 The protected passed pawn
Pattern 3 The quality of the pawn majorities
Pattern 4 King entry
Pattern 5 A useless central passed pawn
Pattern 6 The bodycheck
Pattern 7 The isolated pawn
Pattern 8 The breakthrough
Pattern 9 Separated passed pawns vs connected passed pawns
Pattern 10 The dominant king
Pattern 11 Reserve tempi
Pattern 12 The opposition and its variants
Pattern 13 Triangulation and corresponding squares
Pattern 14 Tactical tricks in the race to queen a pawn
Pattern 15 Doubled pawns
Chapter 2 Knight vs pawns
Pattern 16 Distant passed pawns
Pattern 17 The barrier
Pattern 18 Defence from a remote square
Pattern 19 Blockade
Pattern 20 The knight’s problems with a single pawn
Chapter 3 Bishop vs pawns
Pattern 21 Bishop vs distant pawns
Pattern 22 The double function of the bishop
Pattern 23 Bishop vs three pawns close together
Pattern 24 The shortest diagonal
Pattern 25 When the pawn is more valuable than the bishop
Chapter 4 Rook vs pawns
Pattern 26 The unstoppable pawn
Pattern 27 The battle of the kings
Pattern 28 For and against the candidate pawn
Pattern 29 Rook vs three connected pawns
Pattern 30 The king trapped on the edge
Chapter 5 Queen vs pawns
Pattern 31 Obstacles to checks
Pattern 32 The struggle against a pawn mass
Chapter 6 Same-coloured bishops
Pattern 33 A very bad bishop
Pattern 34 The highway
Pattern 35 An isolated centre pawn
Pattern 36 A central passed pawn
Pattern 37 The king’s entry
Pattern 38 Distant passed pawn
Chapter 7 Opposite-coloured bishops
Pattern 39 The blockade
Pattern 40 The fortress
Pattern 41 Zonal defence