I have no endgame book yet. Randy Bauer praises Karsten Müller/Lamprecht:
Fundamental Chess Endings. Someone else told me that
"Endspieluniversität/end game university" by Dworetzky is even better. Can
anyone compare those two books? I'm looking fo one book with the highest
practice relevance as I do not have the time to study several hours daily.
However, I'm willing to spend many hours into this book over the next months
of course.

2nd recommendations wanted:
I'm looking for a good book for black against English. So far I came to the
2 books:
"English ...e5" by A. Raetsky & M. Chetverik and "Guide to the English
Opening 1.c4 e5" by Hansen
Any opinions?
So far I was intersted in 1...e5 because it looked to me most interesting.

Open for any other recommendations.

Thanks in advance,

Stefan

"Stefan Renzewitz" wrote in message
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I have no endgame book yet. [snip] However, I'm willing to spend many
hours into this book over the next months
of course.

Then buy Endgame Challenge a puzzle book with pure endgames....

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"Stefan Renzewitz" wrote:

I have no endgame book yet. Randy Bauer praises Karsten Müller/Lamprecht:
Fundamental Chess Endings. Someone else told me that
"Endspieluniversität/end game university" by Dworetzky is even better. Can
anyone compare those two books? I'm looking fo one book with the highest
practice relevance as I do not have the time to study several hours daily.
However, I'm willing to spend many hours into this book over the next months
of course.

Howell's "Essential Chess Endings" is fantastic, with a nice mix of the
theoretical and the practical. If you want a more beginner-oriented tome
(I don't know what you're level is) Silman has a book by the same name.

Mednis and Crouch's "Rate Your Endgame" is also superb.

Obviously, this doesn't directly answer your question but hopefully
it'll help. Dvoretsky's books are VERY advanced, and you should probably
be pretty damn strong before you try to tackle them. I suspect that book
would be inappropriate for someone who hasn't started to study the
endgame yet.

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I have no endgame book yet. Randy Bauer praises Karsten Müller/Lamprecht:
Fundamental Chess Endings. Someone else told me that
"Endspieluniversität/end game university" by Dworetzky is even better. Can
anyone compare those two books?

I don't know this particular book, but Dvoretsky's material is always of
very high level - suitable for professional or would-be professional players
(FIDE 2300 and above I think).

I'm looking fo one book with the highest
practice relevance as I do not have the time to study several hours daily.

I own and have used two very practical books on endings, that I strongly
recommend :

- Essential chess endings, Averbach
- Just the Facts, Alburt & Krogius

Both are suitable, whatever your level and are really focused on the
practical side of chess endings. Maybe Averbach's book is a little better as
a primer.

Besides, I saw that another poster suggested Colin's and Crouch's "Rate your
endgame", and I can testify it's first rate material, but rather of
intermediate level, and it's not a comprehensive book.

FYI, I'm around 2050 FIDE

hi ...for a single endgame book get fundamental chess endings by
karsten mueller. the section on rook endings alone is "worth the price
of the book" as they say. the dvoretsky book was written about at
chess cafe last week...his stuff is advanced. just for the mueller
book!

"Stefan Renzewitz" wrote in message ...
I have no endgame book yet. Randy Bauer praises Karsten Müller/Lamprecht:
Fundamental Chess Endings. Someone else told me that
"Endspieluniversität/end game university" by Dworetzky is even better. Can
anyone compare those two books? I'm looking fo one book with the highest
practice relevance as I do not have the time to study several hours daily.
However, I'm willing to spend many hours into this book over the next months
of course.

2nd recommendations wanted:
I'm looking for a good book for black against English. So far I came to the
2 books:
"English ...e5" by A. Raetsky & M. Chetverik and "Guide to the English
Opening 1.c4 e5" by Hansen
Any opinions?
So far I was intersted in 1...e5 because it looked to me most interesting.

Open for any other recommendations.

Thanks in advance,

Stefan

The Muller/Lambrecht book is excellent. You won't go wrong there. If
it seems too advanced, there's a small book by Averbakh that covers
the basics. Another poster mentioned the Howell book, which provides
a good overview, as does the Alburt/Krogius book. I also like
Speelman's Endgame Preparation, which may now be out of print.

Against the English, try Beating the Flank Openings by Kotronias. He
gives you a Black repertoire against the English (using 1..e5) and a
repertoire against the Catalan, to boot. He does a nice job
explaining the ideas behind both. The theory is a bit dated at this
point, but that shouldn't be that much of a problem. I also have the
Hansen book, which is excellent, but more advanced. There's a new
Everyman book out on the 1...e5 English, but I haven't seen it yet.
Hansen reviews it in this week's ChessCafe, along with a ChessBase CD.

Good luck,
Richard Stanz

The Muller/Lambrecht book is excellent. You won't go wrong there. If
it seems too advanced, there's a small book by Averbakh that covers
the basics. Another poster mentioned the Howell book, which provides
a good overview, as does the Alburt/Krogius book. I also like
Speelman's Endgame Preparation, which may now be out of print.

Against the English, try Beating the Flank Openings by Kotronias. He
gives you a Black repertoire against the English (using 1..e5) and a
repertoire against the Catalan, to boot. He does a nice job
explaining the ideas behind both. The theory is a bit dated at this
point, but that shouldn't be that much of a problem. I also have the
Hansen book, which is excellent, but more advanced. There's a new
Everyman book out on the 1...e5 English, but I haven't seen it yet.
Hansen reviews it in this week's ChessCafe, along with a ChessBase CD.

Good luck,
Richard Stanz

Thanks for all comments and recommendations. After all I still took the
"Endspieluniversität" and I'm right now reading it. However, if its too
dificult for the moment you guys gave me some very helpful other tips. I
think that someone can't go wrong by either books: the one by
Muller/Lambrecht and the other one by Dvorecky seem to play in the same
league.

About the english book: I bought at the end the new one from Everyman as
Hansen is more for White.

Now I have quite a lot to read (as I even bought the impressing 400 pages
book about 1.Sc3 just out of curious, check out the review:
http://www.jeremysilman.com/book_rev...nger1_nc3.html)

Thanks everyone for his opinion.

Stefan

I'd definately grab a copy of Fundamental Chess Endings, it's quite clear and
succinct in its explanations. I 'just' got my copy of Dvoretsky's 'Endgame
Manual' and have yet to really work with it, but it looks like another winner.
However, just from briefly glancing through it, it might be a little (lot)
advanced for a 'newby' player.

I'm sure I'll be playing endgames like Smyslov in a couple of weeks