In a major event in chess publishing two German endgame experts have produced a masterly onevolume encyclopaedia that covers all major endgames. This is the first truly modern onevolume endgame encyclopaedia. It makes full use of endgame tablebases and analytical engines that access these tablebases where previous authors could only make educated guesses Mller and Lamprecht have often been able to state the definitive truth or get much closer to it. New timecontrols involve competitive games