Endgame Fundamentals: Pawn Endgames

Name: Endgame Fundamentals: Pawn Endgames
Rating: 4.7 (72 reviews)

Learn Pawn Endgames and understand Fundamental Ideas behind them. This course is for Beginners and Intermediate Players.

Created byGM Mesgen Amanov

Last updated 11/2018

English

What you'll learn

You will learn the Fundamental Ideas in Pawn Endgames
You will feel confident playing Pawn Endgames and understand King activity
You will understand why you should play slow and not rush
You will avoid getting into bad positions and will know how to prevent them
You will learn how to calculate deep forcing lines in Pawn Endgames
You will see easy, medium and hard positions that can happen in the Endgame

Course content

1 section • 17 lectures • 1h 34m total length

Introduction0:48
Engage with endgame fundamentals by studying kings and pawns in interactive positions. Think through the scenarios and apply time-guided tasks to deepen your understanding of endgames.
Opposition - Part 14:42
Opposition - Part 25:37
Mined Squares - Part 13:37
Explore a simple pawn endgame where the winner depends on who to move; any move spoils the position, creating zugzwang and reciprocal zugzwang, until a pawn promotes.
Mined Squares - Part 25:56
Explore a pawn endgame where avoiding the mind square yields a draw under perfect play; timing and king activity prevent promotion.
Practical Mined Squares - Part 17:18
Analyze a pawn endgame with king and pawn play, exploring mind squares, opposition, and how the correct to move choice can force a draw or win.
Practical Mined Squares - Part 25:10
Learn the pawn endgame exceptions using mind squares; crossing the board's half guarantees a white win when white to move, or a draw when black to move, with opposition.
Rule of the Square2:40
Reti Study - Understanding The Square7:22
Explore the famous rule of the square in pawn endgames through a legendary position, showing how promotion unfolds and how the square decides draw or win.
Reti Idea - Paradox4:54
Explore the Reti idea paradox in pawn endgames by analyzing a surprising drawing where three pawns counter a single pawn, highlighting perpetual checks and precise king maneuvers.
Obstacles5:56
Explore obstacles in pawn endgames by analyzing the box concept, its real shape, two-square white pushes, and how king position affects draws and wins.
Complex Obstacles14:29
Navigate a difficult pawn endgame where white uses obstacle maneuvers, precise move order, and layered thinking techniques to force promotion.
Floating Square - Part 12:39
Floating Square - Part 23:39
Floating Square - Part 33:44
Discover the floating square technique in pawn endgames, using edge avoidance, king activity, and the box tool to provoke pushes and win or hold promotions.
Complex Floating Square10:35
Triangulation5:36
Master triangulation in pawn endgames by using king opposition to force a win. See how careful pawn pushes and long opposition convert draws into victories.

Requirements

You should know how chess pieces move and basic chess rules.

Description

Hey guys, this is Grandmaster Mesgen Amanov!

I am excited to present you with my new video course on Endgame Fundamentals. Specifically this Endgame course is dedicated to Pawn Endgames.

This course is for Beginners and Intermediate players. In order to fully benefit from this course you just need to know how the pieces move and some basic rules.

I've been teaching chess for more than 15 years and mentored 3 junior players that became World Champions. I know exactly what material to teach you when you start learning about Endgames. Fundamental Principles such as Opposition, Zugzwang, Mined Squares are important to learn and master.

In this course I recorded 16 Lessons that will help you establish Fundamental Endgame ideas. Every chess player must learn Endgames. World Champion J. R. Capablanca once said: "To improve at chess you should in the first instance study the endgame."

All lessons are very easy to follow and for your convenience I am adding a PGN file for all of the lessons that we will go over. Thank you so much for your attention! Enjoy!

Who this course is for:

Beginners and Intermediate Players rated between 0-1800.