The unique concept of Monster your Middlegame Planning received a very good feedback from our readers, therefore we decided to continue the series by keeping the same concept for endgames in two volumes.

The author GM Efstratios Grivas is going through the most important endgame topics in a testing format, so the reader not only masters endgames, but also tests his actual knowledge.

The MYEP series off er training on a vital subject, the choice of the ‘best’ available endgame plan. As is com-monly accepted, a correct Evaluation of the position, a strong Plan and an accurate Execution are the three im-portant factors that separate ‘the expert from the amateur’.

In a way, efficient training on the three above mentioned concepts can help a chess player mature and lead him to new successful paths.

The today Author has at his disposal powerful databases, tablebases, analysed material, books and by adding his knowledge, you will get what you are looking for!

The endgame is the phase of the game that it has been extensively analysed and formed to concrete conclusions, although in nearly all the books I do know, very little space is dedicated to forming plans.

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Today we have shorter time-controls and there isn’t really enough time to dig on the subtleties of each ending. You have to know and to repeat knowledge; don’t be carried away by the usual myth of the ‘chess talent’. As I repeatedly wrote and proved ‘talent is the excuse of the failed’.

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Knowledge is the key word. And knowledge is absorbed sub-con-sciously; it is impossible to remember everything you study. So, it is highly impor tant to work w it h good materia l and good trainers in order to improve and get higher in the Chess Olympus Mountain.