If you want to score lots of points when playing chess against good opponents you'll have to know how to play the endgame well. While many books have been written to convey this concept, with few exceptions, using them has often been an unsatisfying experience -- the examples are old, and the writing lacks inspiration, direction, or usefulness. This new edition will light your fire as a player ready for our proposed trilogy on chess. Welcome to Grandmaster Secrets: Endings by Grandmaster chess player/author, Andrew Soltis. The "safe" to your right not only contains the pearls of chess rewards (money, trophies, and chess antiquities), but also the pearls of wisdom about chess endings' subjects seldom or never touched upon in those venerable tomes of chess "education." Using a Socratic teacher-student approach in the characters of GM Noah Tall and Pat Sayre, Soltis centers his comments around the subjects of: the various pieces, techniques, plans, mismatches, rules, and how to get started -- all dealt with from a chess grandmaster's perspective. Profuse illustrations and games allow everyone to grasp the concepts quicker, so you will improve in a shorter amount of time. Charts, graphics, and annotated examples in algebraic notation will add to your reading pleasure. Book jacket.