title: Liquidation on the Chess Board: Mastering the Transition into the Pawn Ending
author:  Joel Benjamin 
description: Benjamin has managed to create an excellent guide to a difficult theme that has been badly served in chess literature. If you are really serious about improving your chess, you should work on your Benjamin! (Frank Zeller, International Master <i>Magazine Schach</i>)<br /><br />Entertainment is never far away. The material, which feels very fresh, provides an impressive series of easily digestible lessons. (Sean Marsh <i>CHESS Magazine</i>)<br /><br />Strongly recommended. In transitions into pawn endgames a lot can be gained and a lot can be lost. (<i>Schach Magazin Magazine 64</i>)<br /><br />Well written and thoroughly researched. The selected examples have a strong practical value. This is an instructive work for players at any level above beginner - but it's not a dry endgame manual. The games contain some beautiful ideas and overall I found the book very entertaining. (Daniel King, Grandmaster <i>creator of the Power Play DVD series</i>)<br /><br />The book works quite addictively. It's dealing with one of the big moments of uncertainty in practical chess. (Matthew Sadler, Grandmaster, former British Champion)<br /><br />A labor of love that has produced and outstanding book. (Gary Lane, International Master <i>Chess Moves Magazine</i>)<br /><br />An excellent new book. The theme of the right exchange is underrepresented in chess literature and Joel Benjamin manages to highlight its importance by investigating the transition into a pawn endgame in deep detail. (Karsten Muller, Grandmaster, author of 'Bobby Fischer: The Carreer and Complete Games')<br /><br />Engages itself with a theme on which there is not a lot of literature. It will doubtlessly enrich players with a new aspect of the art of playing chess. (Uwe Bekemann, German Correspondence Chess Federation)<br /><br />Very instructive are not only the many exercises at the end of each chapter, but in particular the last chapter where Benjamin once more summarizes every important motif in pawn endings, with examples and explications. (Harry Schaack <i>KARL Magazine</i>)<br /><br />Not much has been written about liquidation into the pawn endgame, an important motif. In endgame books it is often only indirectly touched upon. This book is therefore to be recommended. (Richard Vedder, FIDE Master <i>Schakers.info</i>)
zlib_text: Liquidation on the Chess Board
  
  Joel Benjamin
  Liquidation on the Chess Board
  Mastering the Transition into the Pawn Ending
  2015 New In Chess
  
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  ISBN: 978-90-5691-553-7
  
  Contents
  Explanation of Symbols
  Acknowledgements
  The ABCs of Chess
  Introduction
  Queen Endin