REUBEN FINE was an International Grandmaster and one of the world's
greatest chess players ever. His books, including "Basic Chess
Endings "and "The Middlegame in Chess," are among the all-time
classics of chess literature.
PAL BENKO, reviser, is a Grandmaster who has been twice a candidate
for the World Championship. He has finished atop eight U.S. Chess
Opens, and has achieved an outstanding record in chess olympiads as
a player and as a team captain.
"This is the definitive work on the endgame, which all serious
students of the game have been waiting for. It is a prodigious feat
of chess scholarship, presented to the reader in clear, pithy
language, full of telling phrases that will linger in the memory
and rise to aid the harassed competitor just when he needs it
most.... The authoritative reference work on the subject.... Reuben
Fine's book is indispensable."
-- The New York Times
"Grandmaster Fine has done a brilliant piece of work. There is no
doubt that it will receive the recognition of the entire chess
world."
-- M. M. Botvinnik
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