The Best Endgame Books
Endgames can be deceptive. One misstep and you lose everything you've worked for the whole game. With this list of the best chess endgame books recommended by chess grandmasters, you can confidently master the endgame.
Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual
Perhaps the best endgame book there is. Highly appraised by many grandmasters.
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Basic Chess Endings
Basic Chess Endings is considered to be one of the first chess books systematically looking into the endgame.
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Fundamental Chess Endings
Fundamental Chess Endings is an encyclopaedia for all the important endgames you must know.
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100 Endgames You Must Know
You don't need to know all the different possible endgames that can ever arise. This book focuses on the endgames that will occur the most common in actual play.
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Endgame Strategy
Shereshevsky explains the principles of the endgame using classic examples from grandmaster practice.
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Van Perlo's Endgame Tactics
This book is a classic and award winning book about tactics in the endgame.
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Silman's Complete Endgame Course
Silman's Complete Endgame Course teaches the endgame from basics concepts to master level information.
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The higher you get in the rating, the more games end in a endgame. And endgames are difficult to control. One wrong move, one lost tempo and everything you’ve worked for in the opening and the middlegame is gone.
With these endgame books, recommended by chess grandmasters, you can learn to master the endgame. These are the best books to study them effectively.
More book lists
Looking for something more specific? Take a look at these book lists:
- Gran Maestro recomendó (20 books)
- Tactic Books (3 books)
- Books featured in "The Queens Gambit" (4 books)
- Attacking Chess Books (2 books)
- Defensive Chess Books (2 books)
- The Best Endgame Books (7 books)
- The Best Positional Chess Books (3 books)