Hi. I'm looking for latest works or favoured by majority on chess
end-game study materials. Will take any good recommendation be it
books or programs.

Thanks.

Pandolfini's Endgame Course - is a good book

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Hi. I'm looking for latest works or favoured by majority on chess
end-game study materials. Will take any good recommendation be it
books or programs.

Thanks.

On 9 Jul 2004 23:26:41 -0700, (Few Good
Chessmen) wrote:

Hi. I'm looking for latest works or favoured by majority on chess
end-game study materials. Will take any good recommendation be it
books or programs.

I've thought about some books to recommend. These are ones I have
(except for ECO), but there are others.

"Chess Endings: Essential Knowledge" by Averbakh is a good place to
start. I think it is still in print, but I'm not sure. You could
start with it or skip to one in the next section.

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Then there are small, one-volume general books:

I've heard that "Essential Chess Endings" by Silman is highly
recommended, but I don't have it so I can't say.

"Essential Chess Endings" by Howell is good, and I recommend it.

I love and recommend "Practical Chess Endings" by Keres, but it is
probably out of print.

I don't like "A Guide to Chess Endings" by Euwe and Hooper, but "A
Pocket Guide to Chess Endings" by Hooper is good. (These may be out
of print.)

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Next are the bigger, one-volume general books, either:

"Fundamental Chess Endings" by Muller and Lamprecht

"Basic Chess Endings" by Fine and Benko (a classic by Fine, recently
updated by Benko).

I recommend either of these (or both).

Dovertsky's "Endgame Manual" is in this category, but I don't have it
yet, so I don't know if it is one to recommend.
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Then the next level is either the 5-volume "Comprehensive Chess
Endings" by Averbakh, et al - or books on individual endings. As much
as I liked CCE, today I'd recommend indivual books instead, such as:

"Secrets of Pawn Endings" by Nunn.
"The Survival Guide to Rook Endings" by Emms
"Rook Endings" by Levenfish and Smyslov (a classic, still in print I
think)

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The next level would be the "Encyclopedia of Chess Endings", by
Informat, which I have seen, but don't have, and would not recommend
(unless perhaps if you are a master or close to it).

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On 9 Jul 2004 23:26:41 -0700, (Few Good
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Hi. I'm looking for latest works or favoured by majority on chess
end-game study materials. Will take any good recommendation be it
books or programs.

I just started Beliavsky/Mikhalchishin: "Winning Endgame Technique"
and I like it.

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Hi. I'm looking for latest works or favoured by majority on chess
end-game study materials. Will take any good recommendation be it
books or programs.

My favorite ebook is _King & Pawn I_ by FM Chuck Schulien. It's described
at www.bookup.com/bod.htm

It's my favorite because it shows off Bookup's transposition tracking
features so well. In the more advanced pawn endings, I am tempted to trade
off a couple pawns and see if I can still win. As often as not, it
instantly transposes to an earlier lesson because the author took pains to
place the examples in the same ranks and files where possible.

The program that reads these ebooks is free. The endgame ebooks are $25 to
$29.

Thanks.

You're very welcome.

Mike Leahy
"The Database Man!"
www.bookup.com

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Hi. I'm looking for latest works or favoured by majority on chess
end-game study materials. Will take any good recommendation be it
books or programs.

Thanks.

The latest works on endgames are probably "Fundamental Chess Endings" by
Lamprecht & Müller and Dvoretzky's "End-game manual". Both are known to be
excellent especially for people looking for only one book without missing
too much. "End game manual" was book of the year once (not sure if it was
only in the category end-game). I own the book and had the chance to have a
look at the Chessbase version which has been released this year: I can
highly recommend both. I very much like how the author presents for each
topic the "normal" learning stuff and at the same time for hardcore players
the expert things which is even hard to grasp for GMs. So you will read it
more than once depending on your level. Overall Dvoretzky's book is quite
challenging, but you really don't have to be a GM to take advantage of it. I
personally love the book and the way it presents the material, IMO a modern
chess education style.

Stefan

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Hi. I'm looking for latest works or favoured by majority on chess
end-game study materials. Will take any good recommendation be it
books or programs.

I'm following the standard advice for players at my level - I'm about
1700 on ICC blitz fwiw - of 'study Tactics and Endgames'. The Silman
book 'Essential Chess Endings Explained Move by Move' is a good
introduction but imo it has faults: there is extraneous material (eg
KBNvK is interesting but not really essential and not very clearly
explained), and occasionally key concepts are glossed over. It seems
very hard to find a fault free book. That said Edmar Mednis's
'Practical Rook Endings' is very slim but worth every penny: all the
essentials of basic rook endings under one roof with no padding.

Also Googling on various combinations of 'books, endings, etc' in this
group reveals past opinions.

cheers

dd