Pal Benko’s Endgame Laboratory

Grandmaster Pal Benko is the World's Greatest Authority on the Chess Endgame. Since January 1981, he has written a monthly column in Chess Life magazine entitled "Endgame Lab." This book is a collection of those columns published in the years 1981 through 1986. Grandmaster Benko needs no introduction in the world of chess. He was at one time ranked in the top eight players in the world. He has beaten Bobby Fischer three times. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, whenever Benko entered a Swiss system chess tournament, the only question was who was going to finish second, because Benko almost always won! He won the US Open Championship eight times. His articles are about playing endgames. Benko writes about practical endgames that regularly come up in tournament play: Basic endgames such as how to win with rook and four pawns against rook and three pawns or how to draw if you happen to be on the weaker side. In short, Benko teaches you how YOU can score more points in regular tournament play. Benko also shows how even world champions and some of the strongest players in the world have sometimes messed up basic endgames and lost games they should have drawn or lost or drawn games they should have won.