Good endgame DVDs?

I have many chessic flaws, but darn my endgame (or rather lack thereof) is by far the biggest one. Anyone have a good tip for endgame DVDs/videos to be on the lookout for?

Karsten Müller chessbase dvd's

Roman's Chess Lab endgames dvd

Learn The endgame The Easy Way by Susan Polgar

Obviously how much do you want to spend?

I have one Muller's dvd's and its excellent but at 30 bucks a pop can't afford them all. The rook endgame dvd (2) covers all the important points in rook engames.

i like romans the best. Karsten Müller might be great GM and maybe his books are good but the DVD´s he just plays the moves like really fast, its not very educational in my opinion.

I think Susans Polgar endgames are very basic, but i dont know if they are good.

To be honest i dont like all of Romans Dvds but the endgame was really good, interesting and very educational. I cant remember so much but i really enjoyed them a lot.

Yeah I know: you asked about DVDs but being a butthead allow me to suggest a book or two just for a change of pace - click on this link if you aren't mortally offended yet

http://www.chess.com/blog/NimzoRoy/endgame-books?_domain=old_blog_host&_parent=old_frontend_blog_view

My public library carries the Roman endgame DVDs. But there are also many excellent endgame books available too. Some endgame books I recommend:

Rate Your Endgame by Edmar Mednis. This is an absolute classic which focuses on planning in the endgame. If you can find it, get it and keep it!

Fundamental Chess Endings By Mueller and Lamprecht. This is the best single-volume endgame encyclopedia available. Batsford's Chess Endings by Speelman, Tisdall and Wade is also excellent.

Winning Endgame Technique by Beliavsky and Mikhalchisin

Improving your Endgame Play by Flear (his other two books in the series are also good)

Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual is something of a mix between a great educational book and an endgame encyclopedia. 

I also like Van Perlo's Endgame Tactics. It has thousands of tactical positions with excellent analysis and discussions. My only problem with it is that it's not designed to teach themes so much as specific tactics. But it serves as a brilliant reminder of how difficult endgame play really is.

I own Basic Chess Endings by Reuben Fine. And for a while it was the best available book in English on the endgame. But it is now mostly just of historical interest. As Pal Benko wrote, the general recommendations were too general and the specific examples were too often wrong. Even his update didn't solve many of the problems with this classic. With so many great endgame books available, this just isn't a must-buy anymore.

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Smyslov how is the beliavsky book, the title intrigues me.

I really got a great deal out of the book, but it's not encyclopedic. The first ~48 pages are on pawn endgames and provides exercises. 

Then the next section is on Rook endgames with an extra pawn followed by Rook endings with a passed pawn on one wing. The fourth chapter covers various other rook endgames and gives exercises.

Then there are sections on Bishop endgames and B vs N endgames. 

Most of the rest of the book is devoted to complex endgames and how to win when an exchange up. There are exercises in most of the chapters.

Overall, the book is excellent for the practical player to improve, but is not really good for as a reference resource for correspondence players. 

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I disagree with you about BCE, BUT it is obviously more of a reference work to read in bite-size chunks and not a "how to" endgame book unless you got a lot of time and energy to invest in it. I haven't read the other books you mentioned but GM Mednis wrote an excellent endgame column for CL for several yrs so I bet his book is good too. 

What is the full name of "Mueller" the co-author of FCE? If it's the IM I'm thinking of he writes great endgame articles for ChessBase and chesscafe.com so I'd expect any endgame book he wrote to be excellent as well

one is GM and Karsten Müller and the other is Frank Lamprecht IM

Karsten Mueller does write for Chessbase, and he's the same person. 

I use the anglicized version cos I can't be bothered to look up how to put in umlauts. Of course, I can copy and paste when it's available. Müller is correct.

NimzoRoy, you use BCE by Fine as a reference book in correspondence at your own peril. There really are quite a few, quite glaring errors in that book, even with Benko's improvements.

Also Silmans endgame books is pretty good. I only have worked till level 1800 but i think its good structured and well explained.

His general principles are still valid and I've only gone thru a fraction of the book from time to time, and yes there are many "typos" and errors but when I've gone thru key examples such as Pillsbury-Gunsberg (K+P ending), Capablanca-Alekhine Nottingham 1936 (2 Rs vs 3 minor pieces) Rubinstein-Lasker 1912 (R+P ending) the analysis appears sound - AND he explains the winning procedures and techniques in clear prose and even if some of his analysis has been corrected (often decades later by an assortment of amateurs, GMs and computers) I find his explanations very instructive.

I don't have Benko's version but from what I've read it sounds like a great idea that was bungled badly, although I suppose the conversion to AN helps those with EN phobia. I've also made many corrections to my $2.95 PB  based on readers input to GM Evans in his CL column which corrected many BCE errors over the years.

Mostly I just work out my endgames by "brute force" and trying to apply Fine's general principles and 15 Rules for the Endgame.  AND I do have several other endgame books much more suitable as "textbooks" to study endgames in general.

I went through most of BCE back in the 1980s and I have several friends who are masters now who cut their teeth on the book.

One of the joys of going through the book was finding errors and discovering that even such a great player as Reuben Fine made mistakes! There are many examples of Fine's mistakes. Here's just one, in an absolutely basic endgame position. 

lol Smyslov.

SmyslovFan BCE is one of several endgame books in my library so I'll use it with caution from now on (every blue moon I get the time and ambition to study endgames that is) 

Maybe the next time I look up something in BCE I'll play out the examples on Fritz in analysis mode for the hell of it. That should at least work for endgames with 5 or less pieces right? 

there are great chess dvd's on this link:

http://www.chessondvd.com/

I like the Müller endgame DVDs. What you have to do is try out each position before he explains it, and then repeat the solution after he has given it. It is true that he is sometimes a bit quick. Maybe the series is thought to be watched and studied as a whole. So he does not repeat the things he taught on the earlier DVDs in the later ones. Not quite cheap to buy 14+ DVDs, though.