Dvoretsky's Endgame or Analytical Manual?

my point

Analytical Manual is too advanced for your level 2100-2300 rated players consider it a very,very tough read I see you opening that book being awed by how hard it is and then putting it away.

On the Endgame Paul Keres book Practical Chess-Endings is more like it

Or  How to Play Endings by Zonsko Borovsky

He emphasises understanding of the principles of the endgames not memorizing moves when you master what he teaches you can apply his techniques to any situation that may arise in your own games for the rest of your life best $6.75 you'll ever spend no need to buy any large tomes.

It's in descriptive notation by the way.

Good luck!

Paul Keres manual is obviously very good, even so I have to say it is too big and too detailed when compared with Ludek Pachman manual. Excellent for reference, even if now a bit "old", but not the book you read from cover to cover. Before you read an endgame manual from cover to cover, your vision on endgames keeps being quite fragmented.

Ludek Pachman, Chess Endings for the Practical Player.

Presume this being the book I have in a Portuguese edition.

what's the point?

I agree with this!

One great advantage to working on endgames even for average players is that it helps in at least two very concrete ways:

• You can sac a pawn in the opening and know that you can usually salvage any endgame against a similarly rated player. This makes you more dangerous in the openings!
• You can use your endgame knowledge to guide you in middlegames. you will know which positions are better for you, and which are not. I've seen countless games by low rated masters from the former Soviet Union where they just go for a complex endgame and bludgeon their opponents even from slightly inferior positions. 

Btw, in order to improve your weakest area, you must be very objective and specific about your strengths and weaknesses. It's not enough to say that you are weak in endgames. Select the type of endgame that you see regularly that you are weakest in and focus on that. You won't improve much if you just try to improve your endgames in a generic manner.

Kasparov recommended re-evaluating your strengths and weaknesses regularly. 

Endgame. Analytical is for 2200 and above.

I feel that you are both right and wrong, the problem with this controversy of when we should study openings, endings, or tactics. I have to say personally, I feel tactics are the most important. Then openings and endings should be equally as important after your rating has reached expert level. It becomes more of style as a player develops. 

https://web.archive.org/web/20140708234012/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review656.pdf

http://dev.jeremysilman.com/shop/pc/Dvoretskys-Analytical-Manual-2nd-edition-77p3828.htm

http://www.thechessmind.net/blog/2013/11/23/book-notice-dvoretskys-analytical-manual-2nd-ed.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20140708233815/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review399.pdf

http://www.thechessmind.net/blog/2011/10/15/a-mini-review-of-dvoretskys-_endgame-manual-3rd-edition_.html

http://theweekinchess.com/john-watson-reviews/the-end-game-comes-before-we-know-it

definitely the endgame university teaches more basics than the analytical manual, which is full of crazy deep analysis and calculation. But probably for your level there are more suitable books, since dvoretsky material starts probably at least at 1800-1900.

Jacob Aagaard's review that is provided by KindaSpongey answers the quesion excellently:

https://web.archive.org/web/20140708233815/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review399.pdf