Monday 18 February 2008

Scanned Endgame Study Books

Joseph Kling, Bernard Horwitz: Chess studies; or endings of games 1851
Kubbel_150_endspielstudien_1925.djvu
Platov_Sbornik sachmatnych etjudov_1928.djvu
Herbstmann_Sovremennyj sachmatnyj etjud_1937.djvu
Prokes_Šachové studie - 150 miniatur_1941.pdf
Prokop_212 šachových studií_1944.pdf
Prokes_Kniha šachových studií_1951.pdf
Fritz_Moderní šachová studie_1951.pdf
Fritz_Šachová studie_1954.pdf
Gulyaev_Izbrannye sachmatnye zadachi i etjudy_1956.djvu
Korolkov_Izbrannye_etjudy_1958.djvu
Chekhover_Shakhmatnie etiudy i okonchania_1959.djvu
Gurvitch_Etjudy_1961.djvu
Herbstmann_Izbrannye_etudy_1964.djvu
Troitzky_360_endgames_1968.pdf
Bondarenko_Etyud v peshechnom okonchanyi_1973.djvu
Bondarenko_Stanovlenie_sachmatnogo_etjuda_1980.djvu
Kasparjan_Domination_in_2545_endgame_studies.djvu
Bondarenko_Razvitie_sachmatnogo_etjuda_1982.djvu
Umnov_Putjami sachmatnovo tvorcestva_1983.djvu
Bondarenko_Triumf_sovetskogo_etjuda_1984.djvu

Books on endgame theory:
averbach1_1980.djvu
averbach2_1981.djvu
averbach3_1982.djvu
averbach4_1983.djvu
averbach5_1984.djvu

You can find further links to chess composition books on the following site:
http://web.iol.cz/vaclav.kotesovec/

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Mr.Rusz,thanks for making this treasure available for puzzle lovers like us.Can you kindly tell me how to download them?I guess they are djvu files

Árpád Rusz said...

From Windows, the download should work both by clicking on the links or by right click and selecting "Save File as".
You will also need to get a software which opens the DJVU files. Or you can convert them to PDF here: https://djvu2pdf.com.