Any books on endgames?

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JogoReal

Read the Yuri Averbakh book from cover to cover. https://www.amazon.com/Chess-Endings-Essential-Knowledge-Averbakh/dp/4871870650/ref=sr_1_5?crid=2K6G5AE1BYDDA&dchild=1&keywords=yuri+averbakh+chess+endings+essential+knowledge&qid=1613421187&sprefix=Yuri+Aver%2Caps%2C268&sr=8-5

lime56

.Capablanca in Chess Fundamentals does a great job of basic endgame instruction

jamesbout

Anyone try Pandolfini's Endgame Course?

Considering this one myself.

IverKelly

thank you very much for the recommendations, it's very helpful for me!

martinbchess

Just make sure to use the errata as it has a lot of errors

https://www.glennwilson.com/chess/books/pec_errata.html

It’s an excellent book.

 

 

 

 

jamesbout

Yeah, a few of those are obvious, but many would leave someone (like me) scratching their head.

Thanks.  This book seems to be considered the easier, and still thorough, book to learn endgames for beginners.

martinbchess

Yes, I have a load of endgame books and this is the only one I can truly understand and absorb. I have read it many times. In fact I have bought a second copy as the first has fallen apart.

Knights_of_Doom

I like the Horowitz book - "How to Win in the Chess Endings".

MoonWolf0603
Book of Lamentations. :O. Sacrifices. Lol, well, take it as you will
jamesbout

Is Silman more "theoretical" and Pandolfini more "practical?"

Can it be that cut and dry the difference?

Nunn's book is sooo small....

Made_in_Shoreditch

In no particular order:

Chess Endings Essential Knowledge by Yuir Averbakh

Fundamental Chess Endings by Karsten Muller & Frank Lamprecht

Pandolfoni’s Endgame Course by Bruce Pandolfini

Silman’s Complete Endgame Course by Jeremy Silman

Are all good and repeat much of the material in Reuben Fine’s Basic Chess Endings but in a more scholastic friendly way.

jamesbout

Thanks.  I'm back and forth between Silman and Pandolfini. Though Silman seems to have less content for the beginner than more studied students.

Thought about Heisman, but there are way too much errata to get and too many lists of variations in the solutions for me. The others I think would be a 2nd tactics book read.

I seem to be down to 2 in each category, hahaa

(Tactics,  Polgar or Nunn, although the "Learn Chess Tactics" I wanted will take 1-2 months to come in. So it's his Workbook for Kids which is a little less involved than Learn Chess. And Polgar typically is being reviewed as a little light on description, mainly being a blurb with tons of exercises.)

EKAFC

Here is a link to 100 Endgames

ukrainiandude
EKAFC wrote:

Here is a link to 100 Endgames

wow, thanks!

jamesbout

Fraid I don't get the joke

Mahrizthehero
Slim and complete endgame course is my fav
ukrainiandude

well this got bumped

HatsuzukiMeiso

Endgame strategy by mikhail shereshevsky

ukrainiandude

bro what

this forum is like 6 months old lmao

astonagarr

Good suggestion so far. I will definitely check it out.