End game book

I'm looking for a good end game book. Which are the best end game books out there? My ranking is about 1500, though I just started playing after many many years of not playing since I played basic junior chess. I guess you could say I've come back to chess. Anyway, I don't care if the book is something that I can also "grow in", that's just a plus.

I hope you can recommend me some, actually all that I am missing is now a good end game book. I have one opening, two middle-game and well.. you see the obvious flaw in this collection 😉 And yes yes, I know.. study end game first. This is what I intend to do now. I think I would prefer some classical know good book over "an unknown" one. Well, I hope you get the picture. Good end game book for average hobby player.

Basic Chess Endings of course, and I understand Seirawan's endgame book is pretty good. But, if you can find it used on e-bay or someplace, The Endings in Modern Theory and Practice by Peter Griffiths is really good.

Pandolfine's endgame course, spelling of his name is wrong. Best endgame book i've read and its very easy to read. 1 lesson per page with a nice big diagram for lesson.

Winning chess endings by Yasser Seirwan.

These endgames book are just introductory really up to say 1900 or so, so if your looking for a endgame book with everything then these are not good.

I like Silmans Essential Chess Endings Explained move by move. Not only is he an awesome and respected writer, but he literally explains every move of very typical endgames of all types. Name some type of ending and it's in there. 🙂 Highly recommended.

Fundamental Chess Endings is the book to have IMO.

Irving Chernev, Practical Chess Endings
Jeno Ban, The Tactics of End-Games
Laszlo Polgar, Chess Endgames

Originally posted by Golub
I'm looking for a good end game book. Which are the best end game books out there? My ranking is about 1500, though I just started playing after many many years of not playing since I played basic junior chess. I guess you could say I've come back to chess. Anyway, I don't care if the book is something that I can also "grow in", that's just a plus.

I hope y ...[text shortened]... own" one. Well, I hope you get the picture. Good end game book for average hobby player.

Originally posted by Grandmouster
Some like Dvoretskys endgame Manual. some like Fundamental Chess Endings, by Muller and Lamprecht.
These books seem to cover just about all you will need to know in endgames for now...

Any of the recommendations above are good. However, for learning the "spirit" of the endgame, I prefer Chernev's book, "Capablanca's Best Chess Endgames," Edmar Mednis' "Practical Chess Endgames," and Znosko-Borovsky's "How to Play the Chess Endgame." All three books are comprised of tournament examples from strong GMs and include every type of practical endgame. Another favorite, though not necessarily an endgame book, is Hans Kmoch’s “Rubenstein’s Chess Games.” It’s worth going through many times just for the Rook and Pawn endings played by Rubenstein. For more advanced play, the three endgame manuals by Dvoretsky are outstanding, but if you're looking for a primer and only want the bare minimum to play an ending, try Averbahk's "Chess Endings: Essential Knowledge." Yes, there are many great books on the endgame, however, if I were banished to a desert isle, and were only allowed one chess book, it would have to be Fine's "Basic Chess Endings." This book is indispensable. It covers nearly every type of ending and has plenty of examples composed and from tournament praxis. By the way, I went through this book three times in succession to improve my endgame play. I’d recommend this training method to anyone who doesn’t understand the endgame or who has plateaued at an 1800 (OTB) rating.

Originally posted by der schwarze Ritter
Any of the recommendations above are good. However, for learning the "spirit" of the endgame, I prefer Chernev's book, "Capablanca's Best Chess Endgames," Edmar Mednis' "Practical Chess Endgames," and Znosko-Borovsky's "How to Play the Chess Endgame." All three books are comprised of tournament examples from strong GMs and include every type of p ...[text shortened]... doesn’t understand the endgame or who has plateaued at an 1800 (OTB) rating.