OK. After a LOT of reading through coaching profiles I did find one coach who mentioned endgames: FM Graham Morrison. I am advertising him or anything - just saying. Interesting that he has been playing for a long time. That seems to correlate with the endgame bit.
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I have an interesting observation about both the coaches who offer their services on this site, and about coaches in general.
I have looked at a lot of coaching profiles here. I see a lot of "opening " coaches and many other things. Yet there is one thing that I have never seen in a coach of any level of expertise:
a specialisation in the endgame and its teaching.
That amazes me. I have no doubt that any titled player here must be at least competent at the endgame. There are also some players such as energia [Irnya Zenyuk] whose videos on endgames show that they would be good at coaching anyone at endgames.
The endgame is what it is. Unlike the opening or middlegame if you have the technique and have a won endgame your opponent cannot do a single thing about it. Kasparov can't escape a won Lucena. You have to say that if there's anything so idealistic as "truth" in chess it has to be in endgames. Technique wins out. A lack of it loses.
There also isn't room to move with endgames. There is no hope of getting above 2200 without being at least competent. Tatics, positional stuff etc there's probably some give there. You aren't a tactical wizard? ok, play dry positions and vice versa.
I am amazed. If I were a chess coach [ and I never will be] I would put in something in my description about endgame teaching.