Unlike technical manuals (like Dvoretsky’s), this book is designed for entertainment and "painless" improvement, featuring witty prose and real-world mistakes.
Ger van Perlo (1932–2010) was a Dutch correspondence chess grandmaster who spent over 30 years collecting these positions for pleasure. It won both the English Chess Federation (ECF) Book of the Year ChessCafe Book of the Year van perlo 39-s endgame tactics pdf
: Some positions are overly contrived (composed studies). But Van Perlo argues that pattern recognition transfers to practical play. Unlike technical manuals (like Dvoretsky’s), this book is