Just finished working through this book. BEST endgame manual I know of. Great book.

While I would hesitate to label any book, endgame or not, as "best", I would be hard pressed to argue with your enthusiasm for this wonderful book.

Few endgame texts covered topics in detail such as the famous advice "Do not hurry" or the idea of schematic thinking (though GM Jacob Aagaard does an excellent job in passing the baton to readers in his "Excelling at Technical Chess").

In Shereshevsky's book, it is noted that when the book was published in the USSR in 981, the 50,000 copies sold out immediately, as testament to the quality of the book and the value readers found in what was written.

This book was highly praised by IM Jeremy Silman in his 3rd edition HTRYC, as well as Shereshevsky's two volume "Mastering the Endgame". Fortunately, the "Endgame Strategy" is not too difficult to locate, but volume 1 of his two-volume set commands a cut throat cost.