When it appeared in 2003, the first edition of Dvoretsky’s Endgame Manual was immediately recognized by novice and master alike as one of the best books ever published on the endgame. If you are new to the game, check out /r/chessbeginners and before posting here please read our rules: https://www. I consider Dvoretsky’s Endgame Manual an absolute must for every chess professional, and no less important even for a club player.

All about the game of chess, including discussions on professional tournaments, game analysis and theory. Of course the 5th edition has not been released yet, however, based on people's experiences with the 4th edition, will the 5th edition be the gold standard of endgame theory? I want to find the most complete book for the endgame so I don't have to purchase multiple books and sift through each one. With staggering depth and accuracy, it clearly reveals the secrets of this most important stage of the game.If you are serious about studying endgames, have a limited amount of time, or are simply looking for a convenient way to improve your play in endgames, the FastTrack Edition may just be the book you have been looking for. The late, great trainer Mark Dvoretsky carefully selected the text to be highlighted so that players at all levels could benefit from this monumental work.

Please remember it can take some time for your bank or credit card company to process and post the refund too. Endgames are a large weakness of mine and I would like to start training more (I hired a coach as I have not been able to formally learn chess almost ever) and would like to round out my game. His works on the middlegame and endgame have set the standard by which other chess books are measured. German grandmaster Karsten Müller, widely recognized as one of the best endgame theoreticians in the world today, has carefully updated the fifth edition with the help of American grandmaster Alex Fishbein. So the 5th edition of Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual is coming out in August and I am an average or maybe below the average player (around 1500 chess.One of the unique characteristics of the Endgame Manual has been the highlighting of text considered to be essential to the understanding of endgame theory. It is eminently suitable to sit in an amateur player’s library as their only endgame book, and equally good at preparing a serious student for many other fine endgame books – not forgetting of course the storied father of this volume, Dvoretsky’s Endgame Manual. Please contact us in advance for advice on best procedure, as in certain circumstances we are able to send our courier to collect items. It is your responsibility to make sure that your operating equipment is compatible with the relevant software or video DVD before purchasing and that software purchased is functionally adequate for your needs. I consider it to be one of the very best chess books published in recent times and I am very pleased with the new enhanced edition.

With that in mind, German grandmaster Karsten Müller and American grandmaster Alex Fishbein – both recognized endgame experts in their own right – have collected the highlighted text from the fifth edition and presented it so that the core concepts might be more readily available.The incredible instructional value of the exercises has been preserved, and the blue text used in the first four editions has been replaced with text with a light grey background. Since it first appeared in 2003, Dvoretsky’s Endgame Manual has been acclaimed as the best single volume ever written on the endgame.