Endgames

Complex
Puzzles
Theoretical
  • ELO: 1800
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  • 2000
Chess book review, Fundamental Chess Endings, Karsten Müller
  • Fundamental Chess Endings
  • Karsten Müller, Frank Lamprecht
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  • ELO: 1200
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  • 1600
Chess book review, Improve your Endgame Play, Glenn Flear
  • Improve your Endgame Play
  • Glenn Flear
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  • ELO: 1800
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  • 2000
Chess book review, Secrets of Pawnless Endings, John Nunn
  • Secrets of Pawnless Endings
  • John Nunn
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  • ELO: 2000
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  • 2200+
Chess book review, Understanding Rook Endgames, Karsten Müller
  • Understanding Rook Endgames
  • Karsten Müller, Yakov Konoval
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  • ELO: 1600
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  • 1800
Chess book review, Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual, Fasttrack Edition, Mark Dvoretsky
  • Dvoretsky’s Endgame Manual, Fasttrack Edition
  • Mark Dvoretsky, Karsten Müller, Alex Fishbein
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  • ELO: 1800
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  • 2000
Chess book review, Comprehensive Chess Endings Volume 5, Rook Endings, Yuri Averbakh
  • Comprehensive Chess Endings Volume 5, Rook Endings
  • Yuri Averbakh, Nikolai Kopayev
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  • ELO: 1800
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  • 2000
Chess book review, Comprehensive Chess Endings Volume 4, Pawn Endings, Yuri Averbakh
  • Comprehensive Chess Endings Volume 4, Pawn Endings
  • Yuri Averbakh, Ilya Maizelis
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  • ELO: 1800
  • -
  • 2000
Chess book review, Comprehensive Chess Endings Volume 3, Queen and Pawn Endings, Queen Against Rook Endings, Queen against Minor Piece Endings, Yuri Averbakh
  • Comprehensive Chess Endings Volume 3, Queen and Pawn Endings, Queen Against Rook Endings, Queen against Minor Piece Endings
  • Yuri Averbakh, Vitaly Chekhover, Viktor Henkin
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Chess books on the endgame, the most important area of study according to most coaches. They are divided into theoretical endgames, those that cover technical positions such as the Lucena, complex endgames, books that focus on endgame strategy, principles, and patterns, and feature positions we cannot solve with tablebases, and puzzle and studies collections, which, similarly to the same category in middlegame books, contains problems for the reader to solve instead of teaching theory.