How to study endgames?
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Everone says it is important, but how do I study endgames? With a Website? Or a book? Or do you Look at your own endgames and calculate everything?
Thanks for your help
You cannot calculate everything, but it is always important to study your own endgames.
To learn endgames I will recommend a book. There are many fine books on endgames also in German.
Learn the most important theoretical endgames, then focus on practical ones.
naomi_wlf wrote:
Everone says it is important, but how do I study endgames? With a Website? Or a book? Or do you Look at your own endgames and calculate everything? Thanks for your help
My suggestions:
1.Get a thin book on endgames--the thinner the better-- and work through it.
2.Then get a thick book on endgames and after you play one, look up the type you just messed up and study examples of better play.
3.At some point, get & study ''Endgame strategy'' and Chernev's book 'Capablanca's greatest endgames'' and you'll win a lot of equal endings.
Bill
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Great book is from GM Luděk Pachman, in german it should be called Endspiel - praxis im schach.
And if you buy premium membership, you can practice endgames in “drills”. It is very helpful. Maybe there are few andgames drills even in free membership
To concentrate on final plans successfully, begin with fundamental standards like ruler action, resistance, and pawn advancement. Make use of endgame-focused resources like books and online tutorials. To reinforce concepts, regularly practice key positions and solve endgame puzzles. Advanced endgame strategies can also be discovered through grandmaster game analysis.
I recommend Chernev’s book, Practical Chess Endings. It presents important composed positions in a sequential order, so you start with the basics and work your way up. I have used this book with beginners, working on endings before we move to the opening or middle game.
another good instruction book is de Villa’s 100 Endings you Must Know. This is aimed at a somewhat stronger player—perhaps 1700+.
Fine’s Basic Chess Endings is more of a reference manual than an instruction book. Keres’s practical Chess Endings is more readable than Fine’s book, but I don’t think it is as good for instruction as Chernev’s.
after reading about the basic King and Pawn versus King positions, and the basic Rook and pawn versus rook positions, it is good to move on to endings from actual games, the book on Capablanca’s endings is good. Also, there are some nice endings in Chernev’s The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played these are selected to show basic themes such as knight versus bishop, good versus bad bishop, rook activity, etc
