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Openings vs. Endgames

Is it more important to be good at openings or endgames? I know lot of openings with their common lines but I am a really weak endgame player if I don't exit the middlegame with an advantage.
So is it better too be good at openings or endgames?
Balance is the key. If you find that you're weak in a particular phase of the game, try to determine why you are weak in that area and do your best to improve. Only studying the area where you are the strongest ultimately isn't going to help you reach your full potential.
If you already know some openings I suggest you start to study endgames seriously. You're gonna convert more games and save a lot of lost positions. You can be smart and start by rook endgames, which are more frequent and give great chances for saving lost positions. Pawn endgames can be the next in your list for similar reasons. Both are hard and you're gonna need to learn and practice a lot.
When you learn endgames by heart then you are considered to be a real good chess player, the real meat. If you learn openings by heart then you are patzer who only cares for the opening. :)

Both are important, but there are whole tournaments where I don't come into any endgame at all. Studying the opening and the resulting middlegames ist very, very important. According to my experience the most important.

I worked through all the endgame stuff including the mighty Dvoretzky's "Endgame manual" but I would say that something like "100 Endgames you must know" by de la Villa is completely sufficient.
Thanks! I'll try to find those books at the library, and I'll also try to find time to watch those videos.
Hopefully I'll get better at endgames.
The best books of endgames are Dvoretsky "Endgame manual", Panchenko "Theory and practics of chess endgames", Portish "600 endgames", Averbah "Endgame school"
@ the OP:

"...So is it better to be good at openings or endgames?...Any suggestions?"

Currently my favorite reading is "Zoom 001 Zero Hour for Operative Chess Opening Models" by Bent Larsen - a generic system that tries to cover all aspects/phases of the game - opening, middlegame and endgame.

In short: You play trough about 400 games with "Grünfeld glasses". The book includes/is about the handling of Queen's pawn, Dutch, Reti, King's Indian, King's pawn, Catalan and English structures for white and black.

"You may very often find yourself involved in an endgame - with or without queens, mostly a rook ending. And mostly the endgame is reached very quickly - which is the logical result of the breakdown of the center and the subsequent fight for the open files. So - if you don't like endgames then don't apply Zoom 001 - and forget about playing chess." (page 14, ibidem)

Please see http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1018065 for details.

Regards, Karl

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