I just received Glenn Flear's Improve Your Endgame Play. This is truly an elementary/learning book, containing just about all the basics and elementary techniques. Flear makes the usual point about specialized books that contain hundreds of theoretical positions, and how, if we try to learn by heart "seemingly improbable and obscure endgame theory from dusty old tomes," "we soon become bored, exhausted, and confused." After this required disclaimer, Flear pretty much starts from the beginning (basic mates, converting an extra pawn, "the square," opposition, outside passed pawns and the like). There are some more advanced positions to illustrate basic principles, but to my mind, this is an ideal teacher's book (with exercises), or a novice's self-teaching book. It is very well laid out and easily readable.

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