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Re: Only Five Endgame Books for your Collection
Reply #20 - 02/11/10 at 12:01:40
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Smyslov - Engame Virtuoso
Lutz - Endgame Secrets
How to Play Chess Endgames - Karsten Muller
Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual 
Viktor Korchnoi - Practical Rook Endings
  
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Re: Only Five Endgame Books for your Collection
Reply #19 - 01/27/10 at 08:05:34
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As far as I know, the 2nd english edition (expanded & revised [rook endings!]) is equivalent to the 3rd german edition. 
The 2nd german edition was more or less just a reprint of the 1st in-between with only some corrections of typos.
Don´t know if further expanded or revised editions are planned. Don´t think so.

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Re: Only Five Endgame Books for your Collection
Reply #18 - 01/23/10 at 17:57:53
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It's called "Die Endspieluniversität" in German, and the 3rd edition appeared there last year. No idea if there's a 3rd edition in English.
  
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Re: Only Five Endgame Books for your Collection
Reply #17 - 01/23/10 at 15:45:44
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Lovuschka wrote on 01/23/10 at 14:36:19:
My choice is not very difficult:

André Chéron: Lehr- und Handbuch der Endspiele, 2nd edition (4 books)
Mark Dvoretzky: Dvoretzky's Endgame Manual, 3rd edition

Or if we count Chéron's masterpiece only as one book, I'd also choose:
Van Perlo: Van Perlo's endgame tactics
HH Staudte & Milu Milescu: Das 1x1 des Endspiels (preferrably 2nd edition since it has the nicest cover)
John Roycroft: The Chess Endgame Study (better known in the first edition title "Test Tube Chess")


Does that mean a 3rd edition of Dvoretzky is on its way, or planned? If so I will have to buy it, since I skipped the 2nd.

A german friend also recommended "1x1 des Endspiels" to me. How does it compare to other books linking studies and practical play? I already have Bán "The Tactics of End-games", Livshitz/Speelman "Test Your Endgame Ability" and Nunn: "Tactical Chess Endings". There is also the new book by Dvoretsky and Pervakov, "Studies for Practical Players" which I don't have.
  

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Re: Only Five Endgame Books for your Collection
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My choice is not very difficult:

André Chéron: Lehr- und Handbuch der Endspiele, 2nd edition (4 books)
Mark Dvoretzky: Dvoretzky's Endgame Manual, 3rd edition

Or if we count Chéron's masterpiece only as one book, I'd also choose:
Van Perlo: Van Perlo's endgame tactics
HH Staudte & Milu Milescu: Das 1x1 des Endspiels (preferrably 2nd edition since it has the nicest cover)
John Roycroft: The Chess Endgame Study (better known in the first edition title "Test Tube Chess")
  
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Re: Only Five Endgame Books for your Collection
Reply #15 - 10/18/09 at 04:25:08
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Yes, it is McDonald's, it is thick but rather small, great for air trips, stick in your jacket pocket on commutes, etc.

About 4.5 " X 4.5" and 288 pages. Published by Everyman.
  
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Re: Only Five Endgame Books for your Collection
Reply #14 - 10/17/09 at 20:43:55
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Bowen, is that MacDonald's book?
  
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Re: Only Five Endgame Books for your Collection
Reply #13 - 10/17/09 at 11:26:48
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I picked up Concise Chess Endings last year and find it a great book to take on trips...a true 'pocket book.' Also the contents are a good primer prior to tournaments!
  
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Re: Only Five Endgame Books for your Collection
Reply #12 - 10/16/09 at 13:21:13
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I can say I prefer endgames books whose target
is the "practical player".

So my favourite endgames books are:

McDonald "Concise Chess Endings"
Pachman: "Chess Endings for the Practical Player"
Keres: Practical Chess Endings"
Howell: "Essential Chess Endings"
Seirawan: "Winning Chess Endings"
  
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Re: Only Five Endgame Books for your Collection
Reply #11 - 10/05/09 at 10:17:36
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Endgame Manual, by Dvoretsky
Endgame Strategy, by Shereshevsky
Pawn endings, by Averback and Maizelis 
Basic chess endings, by Fine 
Practical chess endings, by Keres
  
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Re: Only Five Endgame Books for your Collection
Reply #10 - 09/23/09 at 20:46:32
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Good topic.

How to Play Endgames - Mueller
Van Perlo's Endgame Tactics
100 Endgames - de Villa
Understanding Endgames - Nunn
Endgame Virtuoso - Smyslov
  

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Re: Only Five Endgame Books for your Collection
Reply #9 - 09/15/09 at 08:35:08
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Averbach - Chess Endings Essential Knowledge
Van Perlo - Endgame Tactics
Flear - Improve your endgame
Müller & Lamprecht - Fundamental Chess Endings
Keres - Practical endgames
  

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Re: Only Five Endgame Books for your Collection
Reply #8 - 09/13/09 at 19:34:27
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Can I have 7?

Essential Chess Endings by James Howell
Practical Rook Endings by Edmar Mednis
100 Endgames you must know by Jezus de la Villa
Chess Endgame Training by Bernd Rosen
Fundamental Chess Endings by Karsten Muller and Frank Lamprecht
Endgame Tactics by Van Perlos
How to Play Chess Endings by Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
  
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Re: Only Five Endgame Books for your Collection
Reply #7 - 09/13/09 at 16:23:26
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Speelman - Batchford Chess Endgames
Muller-Pajeken How to Play the Endgame in chess
Beliavsky - Winning Endgame Technique
Beliavsky - Winning Endgame Strategy
Emms - The Rook Endgame Survival Guide

(P.M. If I had wanted a short introductory endgame guide I would
probably have included Howell Essential Chess Endings and left Emms out, since between them Speelman and Beliavsky cover almost everything that is needed on rook endgames. Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual was also a strong contender to replace Emms)
  
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Re: Only Five Endgame Books for your Collection
Reply #6 - 09/12/09 at 23:46:41
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Great topic.

Müller and Lamprecht - Fundamental Chess Endings
Flear - Practical Endgame Play - Beyond The Basics
Karolyi and Aplin - Endgame Virtuoso Anatoly Karpov
Mihail Marin - Learn from the Legends
Van Perlo - Endgame Tactics

Honorable mention:
Rate Your Endgame is great but it loses it's value after you've gone through it the first time.
I like the Silman book a lot but it got kicked off the list by the others.
I also like the Beliavsky and Mikhalchishin three volume set a lot and Shereshevsky's two volume set that covers endgames based on openings but these took too much space to include on the list.

Some of these I've barely read though.  I'm starting to work more on my endgames now.

I forgot Capablanca's Best Chess Endings which is one of my favorite books.  I don't know where to include it on the list.  It's hard to kick off one of the other books because they are all so different and serve a different purpose for what I would want to study.  I think the Capablanca book is similar to Endgame Virtuoso Anatoly Karpov so maybe only one should be included.  It's very hard to leave Capablanca's Best Chess Endings off the list.
  
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