Silman's Endgame Course vs 100 Endgames You Must Know

I created this to simply ask which of the two books you guys preferred and who should read each one to get the most out of it.

For beginners (say, up to 1500-1600), I prefer Silman, due to the way it's sorted: You can get the few easy important endgames out of the way, and then close it again, after you reach your current rating level in the book - 100 Endgames you must know is a lot of 'wasted fluff' at that level, you won't remember half of it anyway, and you have little idea what to focus on.

For anyone else (ie people at a level where they actually 'need' all of the 100 endgames), I prefer de la Villa, because I think it's just the better book.

They are both great. Another favorite of mine is Müller/Lambrecht: Fundamental Chess Endings. There is also Dvoretsky's book, but that one is a bit hardcore.

I think Silman is better. It is very helpful to me even though I am an expert. So Silman is better.

After reading Dvoretzky‘s manual in one and half year de la Villa was easy meat. :D Absolutely sufficient for 99% of the players here. If you climb over percentile 99% you can rethink your route.

My Great Predecessors series...
I have about two hundred chess books, but after reading and rereading the work of Kasparov, studying the hundreds of games commented on the computer and on the board I have no doubt that it is the best.

#6 Yeah that series is great. But I don't think its the ideal learning endgames book.

Obviously I had not read the title :)
I do not know Silmann's book, maybe I'll read it.
In my experience, I found it more useful to seriously study a few pages of Koblentz and Larsen (and of course Capablanca) than to devote myself to systematic works. The transition from the middle game to the final especially

Hi guys,

I'm still a big noob but i've decided for next year to improve at chess and work on my tactics/end games and play longer games.

For the end game part i was really interested by 100 Endgames You Must Know (wanted to buy it on chessable since i thought it would be easier to learn on this site than to buy the physical book). But is it really worth it for someone like me ? I keep reading that there area lot of "fancy" endgames that never happen in real games (but well i guess the ideas do ?), or that not even the third is useful for a beginner.

So if some people here owning the book could tell me what they think about it :D Thanks.

100 endgames you must know only deals with the super basic endgames.