Jan Timman
My Journeys in the Magical World of Endgame Studies
Grandmaster and endgame study composer Jan Timman decided to write this book to show the reader why endgame studies are so beautiful and interesting. In fourteen themed chapters he illustrates many of the ideas which are incorporated into high-level endgame studies. Using many examples, both from his own work and from leading study composers he explains many of the underlying ideas vital to study composition.
As Timman writes in the preface: "Never before have I been so productive as an endgame study composer as in the seven months that I wrote this book. It was a sensational experience."
Jan Timman is a former world championship candidate who rose to the number two spot of the FIDE world rankings. He is the author of several highly acclaimed bestsellers, such as "Curacao 1962", "On the Attack!", and "Power Chess with Pieces".
Published 2011, softback, 269 pages.
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Brian Gosling
The original book of John Brown's chess problems, titled "Chess Strategy", was published in 1865 and is now quite rare. This book offers new information about the tragically short life of Brown (he died from tuberculosis aged 36), and the forces that influenced him in his chess composing in Victorian South-West England. It also presents fifty of the two, three, four and five-move problems which appeared in Brown's original book, together with fuller solutions than were originally given.
Author Brian Gosling has undertaken extensive research for this book, taking him to the nooks and crannies of many libraries. It is an authoritative work on this 19th Century chess composer.
Published 2011, softback, 214 pages.
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Genrikh Kasparyan
Genrikh Kasparyan (1910-1995) was one of the greatest composers of chess endgame studies. His last book remained unfinished, but his son Sergey has completed and published the book. It comprises 888 diagrammed studies from famous composers throughout history, including Troitski, Rinck, V & M Platov, Kubbel and the author himself, together with solutions and annotations. Includes an index of composers.
Published 2010, hardback, 384 pages.

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