The short answer is no.

There is not a good reason to study endgames.

The truth is there are MANY good reasons to study endgames! 🙂

1. Endgames will win or lose the game for you.

What happens in the first 10-20 moves of a game can be reversed with accurate play and clever tactics. But when you reach the endgame, the room for tactics is reduced and what counts is knowledge and calculation skills.

2. You will understand many concepts of the middlegame and of the opening.

When the endgame arises, all the weaknesses of your position will come to light. Isolated or doubled pawns, pawn islands, lack of a bishop pair, bad position of pieces etc. start to become obvious. This will teach you to try and avoid such weaknesses many moves before and also to provoke similar weaknesses for your opponent. It is said that strong players start thinking about the endgame right from the opening!

3.You will become better at calculation.

We all marvel at the chess monsters who are able to calculate for dozens of moves. I still remember how much impressed I was when I read somewhere that Shirov could follow a game by just reading its annotations (like I read a newspaper)! But during the endgames, almost everyone can calculate long sequences of moves. You see, the pieces left on the board are much fewer and the move options of each player are limited

4. You will be able to win many ‘equal’ positions and draw many ‘lost’ ones.

Very often, positions are difficult to assess fully if you’re not a strong player. But by fully understanding certain concepts of the endgame, you will be able to just ‘know’ what the ideal resulting position you should be aiming for. And then, you will have to create a plan to achieve that ideal position. This will be a huge improvement compared to the vast majority of amateurs who move their pieces aimlessly in the endgame.