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Endgames for Beginners
5 students

Endgames for Beginners

Understand the nuances of endgames and become a good chess player
Created byShibin K Benny
Last updated 1/2025
English

What you'll learn

  • Understand how to play endgames in chess
  • Learn all the basic checkmates
  • Learn the intricacies of pawn endgames
  • Understand the concepts to play rook endgames well
  • Watch practical endgame play from the author's tournament games

Course content

4 sections • 15 lectures • 2h 2m total length

  • Queen + Rook Checkmate4:59

    Learn the ruler technique to convert a queen and rook endgame into checkmate by systematically pushing the black king to the edge and blocking key lines with rook and queen.

  • Rook + Rook Checkmate2:10

    Learn a step-by-step rook and rook checkmate technique for beginners: push the king to one side, block and cover key lines, and methodically trap the king along successive ranks.

  • Queen Checkmate5:17

    Master queen and king checkmates by constraining the black king to the edge and closing in, using a classical method and a distance-based shortcut.

  • Rook Checkmate5:13

    Learn how to deliver rook checkmate by coordinating the king and rook to restrict the black king, shrink the cage, and avoid unnecessary checks.

Requirements

  • Basic knowledge of chess - piece movements, check and checkmate

Description

The endgame is that part of the chess game that baffles many players. And it's mainly because when pieces reduce in number, every piece has to used to its maximum potential. This makes endgame a difficult phase to master.


But you have started this journey, and it is the first step to becoming an endgame master. Once you learn the basic ideas in different endgames, you would no longer dread an exchange of queens. You would rather welcome the endgame phase of the game. A good player is good at tactics. But a great player is good at endgames.


Chapter 1 of this course explains all the basic checkmates in chess. Knowing this thoroughly is an absolute must to win games. The basic endgames include Queen+ Rook checkmate, Rook + Rook checkmate, Queen checkmate and the Rook checkmate.


Once you learn the basic endgames, it is time to decode the mysteries of pawn endgames. A huge majority of chess games go into pawn endgames and therefore, mastering pawn endgames is a big step towards becoming a good endgame player. All important pawn endgames are covered in Chapter 2. This includes passed pawns, connected passed pawns, the Big Box rule and the Fox in the Chicken Coup method. I have also explained the 3 steps usually involved in converting a pawn endgame into a win.


In Chapter 3, you will learn piece endgames - endgames involving rook, bishops, knights and queens. We will focus on Rook endgames, as they happen a lot of times in games.


Hope you will enjoy and learn a lot through this course! Welcome!

Who this course is for:

  • A beginner in chess

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