David Endings

This book offers clear, thorough coverage of the most important, frequently encountered endgame situations.

Nobody likes to talk about endings. Here's why we need to.

Comedian Jim Norton is dirty…really dirty…the kind of dirty that makes The Aristocrats look like a knock-knock joke. Fortunately for him, his kind of dirty humor has earned him the distinction of being third microphone on the immensely popular Opie & Anthony syndicated radio show. In Happy Endings, Jim brings his raw, hilarious, and offensively honest comedy to listeners.

Today many more tournament games are being played and club and match games brought more frequently to a finish so that the ending is not left to the adjudicator but is becoming of increasing importance to the ordinary player.

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.

in a painting by Baron Jean-Baptiste Regnault (1754-1829), Socrate arrachant Alcibiade des bras de la volupte (fig. 1), a classically garbed Socrates struggles to pull an ambivalent Alcibiades from the erotic em¬ braces and enticements of a group of three young women. Completed around 1791, a few years after neoclassical painting—especially that of Regnault’s contemporary Jacques-Louis David—had decisively tri¬ umphed in critical estimation over the art of the rococo, the painting of¬ fers a wry comment on that struggle of the one style with the other.