Title: Pass this one up
Product review: On this surface, the pandolfini book looks good, but once you dig down, you discover all is not as it seems. The main problem, as I see it, is that it's a book of winning positions with titles like mate in 2 or mate in 3. Unfortunately, *that* is the easiest part of the endgame, and getting your opponent to that position is basically not covered.What it TRIES to do (and i think it fails here) is give you small pieces of the endgame puzzle as individual positions, and then piece them together. I just don't think this is effective, and would recommend something along the lines of Winning Chess Endings instead, which seems to take a more robust approach.
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