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Topic: Online endgame resources. Help anyone?
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I was looking through my collection of books for a good descriptive resource for engame improvement, the only book i have is "pandolfini's endgame course".
Was curious if there were better resources online, or is that book sufficient for endgame improvement. Any comment is appreciated, Thx.
Ryan Wilson 
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I've heard good things about that book. Until you understand a good percentage of it, there's probably no need for anything else. If you don't like Pandolfini's book, you could try Jeremy Silman's _Complete Endgame Course_ instead.
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This is a no-brainer. I would start with Reuben Fine's "Basic Chess Endings" and read it from cover to cover. Fine was a first rate chess player. Then I would go thru anything on endings by John Nunn. Averbakh's books are a bit specialized but they are also very good. The classics in chess IMO like SMG and BCE remain solid
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www.chesslab.com Allways has a good supply of chess games comming in and it's free to download. Let's say you want to study the Nimzo-Larsen attack, click off the "Draw" and "black wins" buttons, move 1.b3, set the rating to over 2300, and viola! You'll have some quality games, however sometimes I find after analysis the games screw up on me and I can't study them. The best way to improve in the endgame is to study the positions of games from the openings you use as they'll best represent your own games, Basic Chess Endings was a great book, unfortunately however alot of games are draws. Working on Technique with Fritz Endgame trainer should help alot.
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I'm making videos about chess endings. You can watch them here:
http://youtube.com/user/Majnu2006
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Fine's book was riddled with errors, which was the monthly subject of Larry Evan's column in Chess Life a number of years back.
"Practical Chess Endings" [Batsford] by Keres still stands as one of the best, as it is not overwhelming in size, and covers all the basic positions which any strong player is supposed to know.
After that, you may want to specialize a little.
I recommend "Rook Endings" [Batsford], by Smyslov et al., as rook endings are the most common.
There are so many ending books out there, and you may want to try the ones that quiz you:
"Test Your Endgame Ability" [Macmillan Chess Library] by Livshits & Speelman, is hard, but very good practice.
I also recommend downloading Chessbase Light 2007 free from ChessBase, then using the filter to pick out games of the kinds of endings you want to learn. (There are huge databases free, but the freebie version of CBLight won't access databases of more than 16,000 games).
Alternatively, you may just want to go surfing for specific endings databases. There are a few of those in the miscellaneous section at the U. of Pittsburgh website.
Finally, just turning your engine on endings you're unsure about, then looking at the main line, is a very good way to learn. Software like Chessmaster 9000 (and later) also come with some endgame training tutorials.
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