By using the concept of concurrence, we study pairwise entanglement between the two end spins in the open-ended Heisenberg XXX and XY chains up to ten spins. The results show that by introducing two boundary impurities, one can obtain maximum entanglement at the limit of the impurity parameter |J1| ≪ J for the even-number qubits. When |J1/J| > 0, the entanglement always decreases with the increase in the absolute value of J1/J, and for the Heisenberg XXX chain, C disappears when J1/J exceeds a certain critical point Jic, and attains an asymptotic value C0 when |J1| ≫ J(J1 < 0), while for the Heisenberg XY chain, C always disappears when |J1/J| exceeds a certain critical point Jic. Both C0 and Jic decrease with the increase of the length of the chain.
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