Hello,
I've started some endgame training with a club friend. We do it ~ once per week for 2-3 hrs. Basically, we pick positions out of endgame books, pick a color at random and play the position at 10' per side. Then we review the solution (in some cases we analyze a bit by ourselves first).
My question is related to the material we could use for those sessions. Basically we're mixing some standard endgames and more practical endgames. Here is what we have used so far and my observations :
***for standard endgames :
- De La Villa : ok for theoretical positions (but the order is a bit strange)
- Rosen : great for standard and near-standard positions => we keep this one
- Dvoretsky : too difficult
- Mueller Pawn endgames : good (but only for pawn endgames...)
***for practical endgames :
- Lars Bo Hansen' secrets of endgame strategy : good, but the positions are a bit difficult for our format
- Modern Endgame practice (Beliavsky/Michailchin): this book has a great selection of material (that's exactly the king I'd like to practice), but the explanations/texts are very scarce, so I often need to go over the endgame once again with my engine in the evening to understand what's going on
- Flear's mastering the endgame : too difficult
Now, I'd love to find additional sources (books or Internet source/database) with lots of
practical endgames (similar to the Beliavsky book), of intermediate difficulty, featuring a majority of pawn and rook endgames with decent comments. Do you have any additional suggestions ?
Our level : I'm ~2050 but bad in endgames and my friend is ~1900 but good in endgames
Note: Modified to correct the bold/italics on a word. ~SF January 7th 2014
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