Capablanca's Best Chess Endings : Dover Publications : 9780486242491 : 0486242498 : 28 Mar 2003 : Chess endings have an immediacy lacking in chess endgame or chess problems: endings are not theoretical or composed, but actual board positions, the point in every game when the superfluous falls away, leaving only the essential. José Raúl Capablanca (1888&;1942) had no need for isolated artistic theory or compositions &; he composed and created chess art as he played. All of his genius &; intuitive, tactical, strategic, logical &; all of his art shines clearest in his endings, as he himself was proud to declare, advising others to study them carefully. "In order to improve your game," he said, "you must study the endgame before anything else; for whereas the endings can be studied and mastered by themselves, the middle game and the opening must be studied in relation to the endgame." The best way to follow Capablanca's advice is through this &; the only book devoted to his great endings,