Crucial Chess Skills for the Club Player Volume 2, Robert Ris, Thinkers Publishing, 2019

In his second volume Ris continues to explore the essential elements of practical play for any club player.

"In the first six chapters I will mainly look at positions with limited material left on the board. Endgames, yes, but also positions where the initiative plays an important role. My aim is to illustrate the specific features of all the pieces and this can best be done without too many other pieces on the board. The remaining chapters, 7-11, focus on material imbalances, examining various distributions of material. Of course these topics have been discussed in other works as well, but I can offer you a lot of fresh examples from the highest level as well as quite a number of games from my own practice."