Endgame Vision

You were winning. Then the game slipped away.

It happens to almost every club and online player. A pawn up, a rook up, a better position, and ten moves later it is a draw, or a loss. The problem is rarely deep theory. It is a handful of ordinary endgame decisions that nobody taught you to check.

Endgame Vision is a practical endgame training book for players from about 800 to 1500 on Chess.com or Lichess. It teaches one short habit, the Endgame Scan: Kings. Pawns. Checks. Trades. Reply. Five questions you ask before every endgame move.

Inside you will find:

• 15 chapters in five parts: the Endgame Scan, kings and pawns, rook endings, bishops, knights and queens, and how to convert a win or hold a draw.
• Every idea shown by a diagram: arrows for the move, dashes for the defence, red squares for danger.
• Over 140 positions from real games. Each one has a FEN that works in any chess app.
• Every position checked: with endgame tablebases when there are five pieces or fewer, and with the Stockfish engine for the rest.
• Try It First, then the answer, plus a Mistake Watch that shows the tempting move that spoils the win.
• A short test with a score in every chapter, a 30-day training plan and a 30-position Final Test.
• From the Endgame Files: facts counted on the tablebase, such as how often the wrong-coloured bishop really draws.

The book is written in clear, plain English. It makes no promise about rating points. It promises something smaller: you will stop giving away the games you have already won.

Book 2 of The Vision Series.