Its intimidating size notwithstanding, this book is fantastic in my opinion. Apart from Silman's clear explanations and the overall quality of his writing, what sets the book apart is the "ending-by-rating" approach. He encourages you to master certain endgames based on your rating and not advance further until you've completely absorbed a section. Thus, the book inspires confidence in your endgame technique geared towards the level you're currently playing at, which I believe is a great asset. And it makes you feel much less guilty about not working through the whole book at once and motivates you to revise chapters and gain a set of fundamental skills step-by-step rather than obtain a shaky overview of all endgames that you'll have forgotten in a couple of months hence. That was my impression, any way :)
Silman's Complete Endgame Course
I finally worked through the first couple of chapters...good stuff so far! Now I see why this book is often thought of as Silman's finest.
That was a great review! Should be on the outside back cover of the book! One of the most important part of end game play obviosly is pawn power and how to achieve break through=pass pawn. Sometimes ends with a zugzwang position the one who has the right turn win or loses.
Now that I've had this book for 2 weeks, I've closely examined several of of the lessons therein.
Silman's writing in the Endgame book is so much clearer and much less "snarky" than in the Amateur's Mind or Reassess. It doesn't even seem like Silman. No wonder people say this book is his finest work.
I have it, use it, love it, absolutely recommend it to anyone. 
I have Pandolfini's Endgame course, which I find valuable. I haven't used Silman's, but I have Reassess Your Chess by Silman and like it a lot, although it has to be digested in small chunks to be effective in your chess growth, IMO
Yeah so I got to the 1400ish chapter of Silman's Endgame book now. Is the Philidor/Lucena stuff really that high level? Most endgame books start at those sorts of techniques.
Hello, Happy Sunday Funday to all! I realize that I am extremely weak in endgame technique without having an inordinate amount of time to ponder my moves, so tonight I went out to the store and came home with the book named in the title.
I've heard good things about this volume; I've worked through Seirawan's "Winning Chess Endgames" twice now and I don't think it helped me that much.
So, should I be excited as Kerry Shirts about this new purchase or what? I haven't opened the book yet, but I do see it's huge and heavy and reminds me of an overpriced freshman year college textbook.
I'm interested in some reviews of this volume and particularly to know whether it helped any of you in your chess skills.
Thanks.