Good technique of leading the ends of games is mandatory for a chess player seeking to master the heights of chess mastery. It is relatively rare to finish the fight effectively in the middle of the game and only in the presence of serious mistakes made by the enemy. In a much larger number of cases, it is the endgame phase that turns out to be the scene of a fierce struggle for the implementation of a small overweight gained during the previous moves of the debut and the middle of the game.