The final stage, with most of the pieces off the board, it's also a Samuel Beckett play title
The title of Endgame, with its references to chess, articulates an equally
... [DOC] [TLE] Samuel Beckett Resources and Links [PAR] He is the most courageous, remorseless writer going and the more he grinds my 
... his wrought and precise sentences, cannot help but stave off the void.