I've read books about the endgame and learned about it but is there a good way to get actual endgame experience? Is it just to play games? The problem is that there aren't many endgames when I play but when there are I'm in time pressure and I can't remember all of the little rules in time. Maybe the better are at it, the easier you remember the rules? Do you play blitz games for experience there?

Well, my endgame sucks, so if you are willing to be a little patient with me, we can play some endgames together, and study them. I'd be very up for that:)

Ok, but how exactly could we do that? Set up a position ourselves maybe?

When endgame ideas are properly embedded in your skull, you don't need to remember the rules, you will play perfect chess instantaneously and without thought.

You guys can play live chess..

or online chess with moveback options

For me, in a recent tournament game I know that if I had plenty of time on my clock I could recall what to do. So I've learned the rules at some point but I have to really think about them to recall them in a game. But some kind of practice would probably help besisdes just studying harder.

yeah we could set up the position ourselves, unless you have another dea?

Setting up is good, but I don't know if you can have games with a setup position here.

well if worst comes to worst we can just play through to the desired positions, but might take a while

You definetely to learn some basics especially with pawns game ending and practice them, not that difficult once you understand the principles.

In general you wait for your opponent to make a move with pawns, if this is possible, and it is easier to respond.

In any event I have the book from  Jeremy Silman published in October of 2007, the best I have ever seen as it covers all from beginner to the highest level playing.

And for the price about $20 US or less it's a steal or the best deal you will ever have.

In the sixties you played or replayed endgames from columns in the newspaper and tried to understand.

This book summarizes it all and is the best for players up to the highest level.

Once you reach a much higher level, I would say 2000 + then the next best book is from Anatoly Karpov exploring end game new avenues.

The book is called: "ENDGAME VIRTUOSO ANATOLY KARPOV"

And here is Jeremy Silman's review:

 http://www.jeremysilman.com/book_reviews_js/Endgame_Virtuoso_Anatoly_Karpov.html

Hope this helps.

And practice if only in front of a board by yourself as I have done for many years.

Today there are many sites I think taht could offer you this endgame practice, possibly chess.com.

I presume you are talking about silmans complete endgame course?

 Yes, absolutely and for some unknown reason I did not mention the title, glad that you picked up on it. Thanks.

Yeah, that's the book I use. But there aren't many positions with lots of pawns, usually just one or two. Those are the building blocks I know, but still I'm not getting much practice in more likely rook endgames or any for that matter but rook endgames are by far the toughest or at least most common.