Book Recommendation for Endgame

I  am looking for a good strategy book for endgame.

I tried "Silmans Endgame course", which only includes theory of endgame, for instance, knight vs pawn, when is it drawing, when is it winning and so on, it is too boring....

I also tried "Endgame Strategy" by Shereshevsky, but it doesnt explain well enough IMO, maybe i am just too weak for it^^

I really liked  "Chess Move by Move" by John Nunn and Silmans : "How to reassess your chess", but they dont really cover endgame....

Do you have other recommendations to improve the endgame?

De La Villa's 100 Endgames You Must Know.

"... the 2000+ player for which 100 Endgames You Must Know is really intended ..."

https://web.archive.org/web/20140708105702/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review645.pdf

"... Players from 2000 up to International Master will find 100 ENDGAMES YOU MUST KNOW quite useful." - IM John Donaldson

http://www.jeremysilman.com/shop/pc/100-Endgames-You-Must-Know-78p3863.htm

https://www.newinchess.com/media/wysiwyg/product_pdf/9026.pdf

"... one will not learn the basics from [Shereshevsky's 'Endgame Strategy'] at all; ... I like this book a lot, but it has more to do with transitions from the middlegame than with endings themselves." - IM John Watson (2000)

https://theweekinchess.com/john-watson-reviews/endings-endings-endings

It strikes me as a tall order to try to do better than Silman in this respect, but various other endgame study possibilities are discussed at:

https://chessbookreviews.wordpress.com/tag/chess-endgames-for-kids/
http://www.gambitbooks.com/pdfs/Chess_Endgames_for_Kids.pdf

https://chessbookreviews.wordpress.com/tag/mikhalchishin-and-stetsko/

https://www.newinchess.com/media/wysiwyg/product_pdf/7742.pdf

https://www.chess.com/article/view/book-review-winning-chess-endings
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708105702/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review645.pdf

http://www.jeremysilman.com/shop/pc/100-Endgames-You-Must-Know-78p3863.htm

https://www.newinchess.com/media/wysiwyg/product_pdf/9026.pdf

http://chessimprover.com/averbakhs-chess-endings-essential-knowledge/

https://web.archive.org/web/20140708101138/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review373.pdf

https://web.archive.org/web/20140708234309/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review704.pdf
http://www.gambitbooks.com/pdfs/Understanding_Chess_Endgames.pdf
http://theweekinchess.com/john-watson-reviews/endings-endings-endings
http://theweekinchess.com/john-watson-reviews/the-end-game-comes-before-we-know-it
http://theweekinchess.com/john-watson-reviews/theres-an-end-to-it-all

(Understanding Chess Endgames is by John Nunn.)

Basic Chess Endings, by Rubin Fine, gives strategy, step by step, for each ending.  The rules he gives for rook and pawn endings are very helpful and easy to understand.

"... The only real problems with [Basic Chess Endings] are the errors and the fact that it is now very dated. ... the book is now in algebraic notation and the layout has in some ways been improved. ... Perhaps the greatest disappointment ... lay in the failure to correct many of the errors in Fine's book. ... I don't think it is acceptable in the 21st century to produce an endgame book without computer- and database-checking. ... the book can be recommended for Fine's groundbreaking general explanations. Just don't expect complete accuracy or up-to-date endgame theory." - GM John Nunn (2006)

If one decides to go for this, one might want to make sure that one gets the algebraic version, but beware: It is close to 600 pages - not exactly the sort of thing that I would normally suggest to someone with boredom issues.

I hate to repeat myself, kinda, because you have heard me say this before.  It is true that  this book has been found to contain errors, but it is equally true that those refutations have also been refuted.  As far as a book that explains strategy in every ending(in one volume in English) , nothing compares with it.  I have won many games against strong players after studying his rules on rook and pawn endings.  And that does not include the other endings .  I could find using modern computers(stronger than the ones Nunn had acess to)  errors in his books and other modern endings books.  Errors will always be found.  Even computers err in analysis.  See Modern Chess Analysis, Robin Smith.  Should we stop reading books because they might contain errors?

With regard to reported errors in Basic Chess Endings, as far as I can tell, the choice seems to be between believing Nwap111 and believing GM John Nunn. It strikes me as reasonable to put the GM Nunn view (about an apparently noteworthy number of errors) before readers here. Details are available in Nunn’s 2007 book, Secrets of Practical Chess. Again, an approximately 600 page endgame book strikes me as an odd choice for someone with boredom issues, but, if someone wants to go for it, it is fine with me.

Hi.

Practical rook endings, practical bishop endings and practical knight endings, all by Mednis.

Greetings.

Kindaspongey.  Have you ever read the book you criticise?

Is there a specific statement by me to which you object? I note the Nunn comments. I note that the algebraic edition is close to 600 pages. Do I have to do more than browse through the book in order to be able to legitimately do these things?

The problem is that you merely note his comments.  Other grandmasters might disagree.  So you are telling people not to buy this book based on the opinion of one grandmaster and your own work of "browsing " through the book.  Since you  never read the book, I think people would do better to examine the book themselves and make their own decision whether it  fits their  neeeds.  The chapter on rook and pawn endings    alone and the rules he gives would increase anyone's USCF rating by 100 points if studied.

They might, but we can note the extent to which such disagreement is reported here. Also, we can look at sites like https://www.newinchess.com/endgame and https://shop.chess.co.uk/category-s/1860.htm in order to get an idea about what is being sold these days.

Nwap111 wrote (~19 minutes ago): "... So you are telling people not to buy this book …"

See above.

Sadly, I do not know of an available online sample.

Ghost of pushwood.  Have you read BCE?

I think the mistakes can be a good thing.  Years ago a friend and I used to meet and study.  We were using Fines BCE.  We got to a page where the diagram, and solution didn't make any sense to either of us.  We finally figured out that it was one of those infamous "mistakes" in the book.  But we took the time to figure it out.  So it turned out to be a true learning experience.

Bacon, since you read the book, do you think that he gives good intro principles, especially his rules on play in rook and pawn endings?

Pandolfini's Endgame Course.