I can't do justice to Secrets of Pawn Endings, by Karsten Mueller and Frank Lamprecht, because I've read so little of it. Again this is a technical work (don't worry: more elementary ones are coming!). The book contains only positions with king-and-pawns versus king, computer-checked to positions with up to 7 pawns. One might wonder how the authors can devote 288 pages to pawn endings (265, actually), but more than any specialized book, this one uses an extraordinary number of those pages for Exercises and Solutions, about a fourth of the book. First principles and what I would call elementary positions fill the first 33 pages, but that is deceptive, since most other chapters then begin with necessary concepts such as building a fortress, corresponding squares, "preliminary considerations" and the like. There's no doubt that students of just about any level could learn from this book, but one must concede that the less-advanced student can learn what he needs to know in a lot fewer pages.

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