Orthodox chess endgames (John)
This page contains reports of books and other collections, obituaries and other tributes, studies, notes on endgame theory, and miscellanea. For Harold van der Heijden's Endgame study database VI see foot of page.
Books and other collections
A Book of Bedtime Pawn Endings (November 2023)
Endgame Wizardry (August 2022)
Endgame Magic (second edition) (JDB and Timothy Whitworth, May 2018, supplementary notes April/September 2021)
Depth and Beauty (the endgame studies of Artur Mandler, 2003)
The chess endgame studies of Richard Réti (latest revision 12 November 2012)
British Endgame Study News (ISSN 1393-0318, 1996-2010)
Timothy Whitworth's postscripts to his books on Kubbel, Mattison, and the Platov brothers, previously advertised on this page, are no longer available as separate items, but the books themselves, complete with postscripts, are available from Chess & Bridge, www.chess.co.uk, and will presumably remain so as long as stocks last.
Obituaries and other tributes
Timothy Whitworth 1932-2019 (April 2019)
Studies and notes thereon
Two classic modern endgame studies (April 2015)
Endgame theory
Cyclic zugzwangs with not more than five men (July 2023)
Miscellanea
Reminiscences of a puzzle enthusiast (pages 3/5/12 refer)
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To obtain Harold van der Heijden's Endgame study database VI (93,000+ endgame studies for 55 euros), visit his site www.hhdbvi.nl.
Guy Haworth 1946-2021 (June 2021)
Richard Guy 1916-2020 (July 2020)
Jeremy Morse 1928-2016 (February 2016)
Gordon Davies 1935-2016 (January 2016)
Colin Crouch 1956-2015 (August 2015)
Adam Sobey 1925-2015 (July 2015, footnote added April 2016)
Paul Valois 1946-2014 (May 2014)
Mario Matouš 1947-2013 (by Emil Vlasák, July 2013)
The contributions of Marc Bourzutschky to chess endgame knowledge (January 2015, supplementary note April 2021)
Barbier / Saavedra : The case against Porterfield Rynd (September 2014)
On a study by Behting (August 2013)
Second thoughts on asymmetry (July 2013)
A little more about queen and knight against two rooks (September 2021)
PGN file containing all reciprocal zugzwangs with not more than six men
51 Flights of Chess Fancy (chapters 1-2 refer)
On being a chess endgame study impresario (written in 2009 for a meeting to celebrate the 80th birthday of John Roycroft, one paragraph revised July 2023)