Endgames for Beginners

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!