how to play chess endgames book

Symbols
+- White is winning
± White is clearly better and should win
;t White is slightly better, but the advantage should not be enough to win
The position is equal or drawn
+ Black is slightly better, but the advantage should not be enough to win
+ Black is clearly better and should win
-+ Black is winning
+ check
++ double check
# checkmate
a strong move
! ! a beautiful and strong move
a bad move
?? a gross blunder
!? an interesting move
?! a dubious move
Ch championship
Cht team championship
Ct candidates event
Wch world championship
W cht world team championship
Ech European championship
Echt European team championship
ECC European Clubs Cup
tt team event
jr junior event
worn women's event
OL olympiad
rpd rapidplay game
adv advanced chess (man+machine)
corr. correspondence game
1-0 the game ends in a win for White
112-112 the game ends in a draw
0-1 the game ends in a win for Black
(n) nth match game
( D) see next diagram
Beneath the diagrams in the exercises you will find signs such as***/. This signifies that this exercise,
with White to move, has a degree of difficulty of 3 stars. The sign/** indicates that Black is to
play, with a difficulty of 2 stars. The stars signify:
easy
moderately difficult
"'*