After we catch up to current games and the openings have all been seen before I think it would be good to skip through the openings very quickly and spend more time on the middle and end game. Especially if you are going to get an endgame book and begin study of that phase of the game.

Problem is I can't seem to find the type of endgame book I want.

that appears to be a temporary problem. i doubt the endgame book you are looking for ceases to exist all together. unfortunately, i really couldn't offer you any help in finding a book for your level of play, but I'm sure there is a book out there.

I suspect it doesn't exist

http://www.jeremysilman.com/book_review ... dgame.html

have you looked through all of those reviews? there may be one there for you. If not....well then I suppose you'll just have to figure it all out on your own.

isn't dvoretsky endgame manual like THE book for endgames. i have it. its pretty good.

Not really, I don't seem to find any good books for what I'm looking for. I want it to be heavy on the theoretical side....with very common situations and lots of examples of them. For instance R+4 vs R+3, all on same side of the board, but with a bunch of examples and discussions of the differences on placements of the pawns, and like if one side has doubled pawns and etc...

Lots of R+3 vs R+2 stuff. The key is I need to understand positions that come up a lot so I can consciously aim for them in my games. Hard to explain anyway, but I don't know of any book that would help with this. I don't need to see some Capablanca game where he uses the 7th rank or some "practical" endgame where I have to calculate 30 moves to figure out the answer and the knowledge won't be extremely accesable to other similar positions.

In game 1, after Bxf6 he plays Nxd6, but isn't Nd2+ better? It's about minute 10.

lol, do you even need to phrase that in the form of a question?

I don't know if they have endgame books for that sort of thing?

Listen, in the Bogo, when you try to think of plan at minute 18:48 and find Qc7 threatening Qb6, what if white's just playing Kh1 and then if Qb6 c5 dc Nc4?

Okay maybe that's not black's best plan. More I think about it, its probably best to hit him with the ....h5-h4 idea now, as used in the other line involving immediate b4 and Qb3.

Maybe I can take it off and hope for the best too?

This ...h5 move is exact same position they recommend it in Dzindzi book except there is a white pawn on f3. Helps if white wants to go g4 for whatever reason, but otherwise doesn't help much.

HOPE TO HAVE MORE VIDEOS FOR YOU ALL SOON JUST BEEN BUSY playing 24/7. But should have some good stuff eventually...patience!

cant be patient. must have videos hurry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Game three was my favorite with the semi-slav analysis. Gave ideas. Thanx for the post!