Chess Gorilla Store
Fritz Trainer: Endgame Eseentials You need to know 1 w/Ganguly
Fritz Trainer: Endgame Eseentials You need to know 1 w/Ganguly
- $8.95 Flat-Rate Shipping (Free over $100)
Couldn't load pickup availability
Club & Scholastic Discounts
Increase your order quantity to unlock bulk institutional pricing for your club or school.
| Quantity Ordered | Discount | Price Per Set |
|---|---|---|
| 1 - 4 Sets | Standard Retail | $39.95 |
| 5 - 9 Sets | Save 10% | $35.96 /ea |
| 10 - 24 Sets | Save 15% | $33.96 /ea |
| 25+ Sets | Save 20% | $31.96 /ea |
ℹ️ Prices adjust automatically at checkout when the target quantity is added to your cart.
Rook Endgames Demystified. From the Fundamentals to the Non-Trivial.
GM Surya Shekhar Ganguly — drawing on his vast experience at the elite level — shares uncommon endgame wisdom in this first volume of his rook endgame series with IM Sagar Shah. The material starts with the essentials and quickly enters territory that will challenge even masters.
What This Course Covers (4h 46min):
- The fundamentals: Lucena, Philidor, and Vancura positions — the bedrock of rook endgame theory
- Doubled pawns — the slippery theoretical nuances that trip up even strong players
- Pawns on the f- and h-files — the most practically important and least understood cases
- Ingenious rules of thumb — practical guides for navigating knotty endings
- The importance of calculation over blind rule-following — Ganguly's core philosophy
Ganguly's promise is unusual for a chess instructor: he promises uncertainty. His goal is not to give you rules to memorize, but to make you watchfully comfortable with the complexity these endings actually contain. The result is deeper, more durable understanding.
A Fritz Trainer video course — 4 hours 46 minutes. See also Volume 2 for application and advanced examples.
Master rook endgames from the ground up. 4h 46min of essential instruction from a world-class GM.
