How to play for a better endgame?

Hi all, 

i was was wondering if you have any tips on how to play for a better ending? What I mean by this is to play a middlegame such that I have the better endgame. 

Any tips, videos or anything that could help?

thanks,

~Happy

^^

It seems that the old Russian school used to teach chess to kids backwards, that is starting with the endgame, then learning about middlegame, and finally learning openings. I fully agree. If you know if and endgame is won then you're not afraid to exchange i.e. a queen for a knight because you know how to follow it up.

Thanks for the response! How would someone go about studying this?

Tactics training.

The strategy lessons here are pretty good!

Is there anybook that actually explain the teaching method of Russian school?

https://chessbookreviews.wordpress.com/2015/06/04/the-soviet-chess-primer/
https://www.qualitychess.co.uk/ebooks/Soviet_Chess_Primer-extract.pdf
"... The title might suggest it is for beginners, but that is not the case. [The Soviet Chess Primer] does start off with some basic positions, but quickly moves on to much more advanced material including chapters on positional play and techniques of calculation." - IM John Donaldson

"... Apart from openings and middlegames, the student is commonly advised to study the endgame, sometimes with an admonition to stay away from serious opening preparation untl an unspecified 'later'. When I was beginning to play chess four decades ago, this advice was ubiquitous, accompanied by the 'fact' that all the Soviet children learned endings in depth before they were allowed to play any games.That turned out to be an utter myth, but there's no doubt that learning a limited set of basic endings is absolutely essential for your development as a player. ..." - IM John Watson (2010)

"... 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)
http://theweekinchess.com/john-watson-reviews/endings-endings-endings
"... The second part of [The Shereshevsky Method] is a concentrated version of Endgame Strategy, ..."
https://www.newinchess.com/media/wysiwyg/product_pdf/9056.pdf

It's like asking how to play for a big sacrificial middlegame from move one... you can't unless your opponent cooperates. So what you do is you study attacks, learn a lot of patterns and ideas, then while playing good moves you look for opportunities.

Same for the endgame. You study lots and lots of endgame stuff, then while playing good moves during the middlegame, you look for opportunities.

Ahahaha, that's a great answer.

Aside from studying the endgame, I typically just try to play towards a good end. I would take the end game principles I've learned and discovered, and put them to use right from the opening. So, while I'm playing the game I'm also looking at whether I'm building up to a good endgame position or not.

lessons and study games from masters who are good at endgames.

Try to study masters.