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This book is a must-read for anyone who knows the basic mates and understands the opposition who doesn't know what to study next in this all-important phase of the game. The exercises are enjoyable, tough, thought-provoking, and instructive, and working through them is almost like having a master-level teacher at your side.

Unlike many endgame books, which provide information about standard positions, this Crouch + Mednis book teaches HOW TO THINK about real games moving to or in the endgame. It is very clear, well-written, and has great practical application.

For most chessplayers, even very strong ones, studying the endgame is painfully boring. This book is one of the few genuinely entertaining and instructive books available on this subject. The book concentrates on practical endgame situations, rather than bore the reader with such stuff as mate with B and N, which one may be required to perform once every five thousand games or so.

This is one of those "must own" chess classics. I don't know of any other endgame book that lets you sit at the board with great endgame players and compare your own ideas with those used in the game or found in later analysis.

This is more absorbing than most endgame books. It's too bad more writers haven't picked up on this way of teaching endgames. I would like to see more books like this.