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Tablebases still won't help you when there are pawns on the table. For example, see what Ruffian says about this position:
6R1/P1k5/r7/5N1P/r7/p7/7K/8 w - - 0 1
White to play and draw
(White: King on h2, rook on g8, knight on f5, pawns on a7 and h5
Black: King on c7, rooks on a4 and a6, pawn on a3)
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You are absolutely correct and that's why I decided to include books on endgames in the plan as well. Either way I need to play through the endings and I haven't found a friend willing to do it [Most of the time I end up playing blitz at Barnes and Noble and the intentions of studying the ending end up in just that: intentions] I also tried to study the ending online with friends but nobody has been consistent thus far... What then? Play against the engine and verify the results with the book analysis! I have collected about 300 psitions with pawn endgames. Yesterday I played through 10 of them using 5 minutes in the clock. I am not going to say that I rocked but the training was beneficial because I was able to see that I do not understand corresponding squares...
So, to summarize, I agree: engines + tablebases are just a kludge but considering the options I can't see any other way to practice the theory.
Many thanks for the reply!
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Hi! For several years I had severe problems with my endgame skills but then I started studying the end of games first! I look up a game which have
been won using one of my favourite openings and go right to the end of the game, and see if I can win this "won" game against FRITZ, quite often I can't. OK chance to learn something :-). Spending whatever time it takes to consult books etc. I strive to learn the necessary skills before the "rematch". Often I do win this time. Sometimes though I have to go to FRITZ and "ask" him "Ok, how would you do it" I play the defence. If I CAN win from the last position in a game then I move back a few moves (making the win further away)repeating this idea of moving further back several times, sometimes as far back as the opening! I remember using "Capablanca's Best Chess Endings" as my first book used for this idea. Using an annotated book such as this will further help clarify what schemes are required. 
Hoping this is of interest.
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"Hoping this is of interest." Very much so. I haven't seen the book you mention with Capablanca's endgames but that's one of my model players. I do have a collection of games by Ulf Andersson, Salo Flohr, Jose R. Capablanca, and Smyslov. I specially like that game (please don't ask me for specifics now... I have that game at home with my database...) against Gligoric where Smysov drew an endgame of K+R vs K+R+2P (bishop and rook pawns) Talk about a cool game! Altough, not a perfect solution, I do agree that playing endgames against Fritz, Ruffian or any other decent engine, is a good approach to learning the endgame. Consulting books is a must as you say and I do take the time to go through them. I even downloaded all the lectures by Karsten at chess cafe:
http://www.chesscafe.com/archives/archives.htm#Endgame%20Corner
Boy! has it been a good exercise?
Thanks very much for the reply. I shall see if I can post good examples of my learning experiences...
Regards
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