{"product_id":"endgame-workshop-principles-for-the-practical-player-the-pandolfini-chess-library-9781888690538","title":"Endgame Workshop: Principles for the Practical Player (The Pandolfini Chess Library)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is an endgame book. It deals with the final phase of a chess game  the one that comes after the opening and the middlegame. But it doesnt take the point of view that the endgame is separate from the other two phases. Rather it argues that the game is an organic whole  and that everything is related  at least up to a point. What happens earlier can explain what happens later.  The book also recognizes that the endgame tends to have special characteristics. As much as possible  the author tries to bring out those characteristics so that the reader can come away with basics and underlying principles to help find his or her way through the final phases of their own games.  In Endgame Workshop the author explores subjects that are typically covered in most endgame treatments  but does it differently.  To be sure  he follows the format usually employed in his own lessons  treating ideas across the board as they seem to apply. To be sure  he offers most of the standard stuff  from basic mates  to the opposition  critical squares  and many of the standard techniques used to advance and promote pawns  as well as the defensive weapons to fight against such enterprise.  Pandolfini looks at chess positions  the stuff the game is made of  with less regard to simplicity and more to aptness and circumstances. By playing through the book  however  one should come away with a full array of tactical and strategic weapons to improve their overall endgame play.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67924849524789,"sku":"ByrdShop_1888690534","price":100.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781888690538.jpg?v=1794142386","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/endgame-workshop-principles-for-the-practical-player-the-pandolfini-chess-library-9781888690538","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}