When it first appeared in 2003, Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual was immediately recognized by novice and master alike as one of the best books ever published on the endgame.

"Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual comes close to an ultimate one-volume manual on the endgame." - Lubomir Kavalek, The Washington Post.

"Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual is quite simply a masterpiece of research and insight. Most of all, Dvoretsky's analysis is staggering in its depth and accuracy." - John Watson, The Week in Chess

"To call this the best book on endgame ever written seems to be an opinion shared by almost all reviewers and commentators." - Erik Sobjerg, Seagaard Chess Reviews, where it was the 2003 Book of the Year.

Mark Dvoretsky is considered by many to be the premier chess instructor of our era. His works on the middlegame and endgame have set the standard by which other chess books are measured. He lives with his family in Moscow, Russia.

Content:
008 Foreword

009 Preface

010 From the Author (First Edition)

014 From the Author (Second Edition)

015 Publisher's note to the Third Edition

016 Other Signs, Symbols, and Abbreviations

017 Chapter 1 Pawn Endgames

071 Chapter 2 Knight versus Pawns

078 Chapter 3 Knight Endgames

085 Chapter 4 Bishop versus Pawns

094 Chapter 5 Opposite-colored Bishops

108 Chapter 6 Bishops of the Same Color

121 Chapter 7 Bishop versus Knight

138 Chapter 8 Rook versus Pawns

146 Chapter 9 Rook Endgames

228 Chapter 10 Rook versus Knight

238 Chapter 11 Rook versus Bishop

253 Chapter 12 Queen Endgames

267 Chapter 13 Queen versus Rook

282 Chapter 14 Other Material Relations

298 Chapter 15 General Endgame Ideas

329 Chapter 16 Solutions

384 Bibliography

387 Indexes