One of Chessable's best break-out authors, IM Ahmad Alkhatib, returns for volume 3 of his excellent endgame series which focuses in on pawns vs. pieces.Students have loved IM Alkhatib's easy teaching style and ability to make studying the business end of chess fun.
Volume 1 of Mastering Pawn Endgames was a wide survey of very basic concepts such as the opposition, key squares, the square of a passed pawn and triangulation.
Volume 2 dived into pawn endgames in a bit more in-depth, exploring the more difficult and hard-to-spot instances of the same concepts.
Study the common endgames first!
Now Mastering Pawn Endgames: Volume 3 takes us into the realm of pieces and pawns and how to win or salvage games with that imbalance.
In these endgames, calculation training comes far more to the fore with the focus less on technique like in volumes 1 and 2.
Cases where one side has a piece (a knight, a bishop, a rook, two knights or bishop and knight) and the other side only has pawns are, needless to say, extremely common.
That's why mastering these pawn endgames, in particular, will certainly pay off!
International Master Ahmad Alkhatib is a 23-year-old professional player and coach. He is the reigning national champion of Jordan and represented his country at the 43rd Olympiad in Batumi.
Also check out the other volumes in this series:
Mastering Pawn Endgames: Volume 1 Mastering Pawn Endgames: Volume 2Mastering Pawn Endgames: Volume 4
