Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual

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Please contact us in advance for advice on best procedure, as in certain circumstances we are able to send our courier to collect items. All about the game of chess, including discussions on professional tournaments, game analysis and theory. 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.

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. Since it first appeared in 2003, Dvoretsky’s Endgame Manual has been acclaimed as the best single volume ever written on the endgame. Please remember it can take some time for your bank or credit card company to process and post the refund too.I consider Dvoretsky’s Endgame Manual an absolute must for every chess professional, and no less important even for a club player. If you are new to the game, check out /r/chessbeginners and before posting here please read our rules: https://www.

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.

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? 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.

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. 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.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. His works on the middlegame and endgame have set the standard by which other chess books are measured. 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.