pfren wrote:
IMHO the best start for new players into the endgame world is the Keres book (thinner than Fine's, but more consistent and easy to read and absorbe, and also shockingly short of errors), and right after that, the monumental "Endgame Strategy" by Shereshevsky, which is simply a masterpiece (and yes, that second one has many computational errors, but they do not matter at all).
Agree that Shereshevsky's book is a masterpiece...one of the best books ever, full stop. But would you really recommend it as a second endgame book? This is intriguing to me, because I wouldn't recommend it to anyone below 1700.
I have heard a lot of good things about the Keres book, but I don't have it. Maybe I will check it out.
IMHO the best start for new players into the endgame world is the Keres book (thinner than Fine's, but more consistent and easy to read and absorbe, and also shockingly short of errors), and right after that, the monumental "Endgame Strategy" by Shereshevsky, which is simply a masterpiece (and yes, that second one has many computational errors, but they do not matter at all).