Selection of studies composed by
John Derek Beasley
(England, 15.2.1940).
John has an interesting website with a lot of Endgamestudy articles
More information about him on the french Wikipedia, BDS and ChessComposersBlogspot
A endgamebook he wrote (with Timothy Whitworth) in 1996:
You can read this book for free online here.
Recently, in October 2017, a second edition was issued.
It contains 160 studies (20 new ones) with extensive commentary. 192 pages.
After an Introduction the book has 3 parts with in total 17 chapters.
The chapters show studies with certain themes, like i.e. :
"Winning material", "Losing the move", "Underpromotion", "Fortress and blockade" or "Echoes and repetitions".
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And he wrote the Arves book "Depth and Beauty" (2003) about studies of Artur Mandler:
On his website you can find this book completely scanned !!
In 2022 he pbublished:
(All his studies, more exact dates, possible corrections or cooks and exact details about sources can be found in the
Harold van der Heijden (HHdbVI))