Chess Endings for Beginners

Chess Endgame Mastery: A Comprehensive Beginner's Course

This course, featuring 339 lessons and 886 exercises, provides a structured approach to chess endgames for beginners. Building upon the foundations of "Beginners to Club," "Chess Strategy for Beginners," and "Total Chess Endings," it carefully selects challenging yet manageable exercises. The material is beginner-friendly, incorporating numerous explanations and hints. A significant focus is placed on winning with an extra pawn, alongside essential techniques for standard checkmates (from checkmates with major pieces to those involving a bishop and knight).

Part of the Chess King Learn series (https://learn.chessking.com/), this course utilizes a unique teaching methodology. The series offers comprehensive coverage of tactics, strategy, openings, middlegame, and endgame, catering to all skill levels, from novice to professional.

This course enhances chess understanding, introduces new tactical maneuvers and combinations, and reinforces learned concepts through practical application. The program acts as a personalized coach, assigning exercises, offering assistance when needed, providing hints and explanations, and even demonstrating refutations of common mistakes.

Interactive theoretical sections complement the practical exercises. Lessons present game strategies through real-world examples, allowing users to actively participate by making moves on the board and analyzing unclear positions.

Key Features:

• High-quality, rigorously verified examples
• Guided input of all crucial moves
• Exercises with varying difficulty levels
• Diverse problem-solving objectives
• In-built hints for error correction
• Refutations for common mistakes
• Play through any position against the computer
• Interactive theoretical lessons
• Organized table of contents
• ELO rating tracking during learning
• Flexible test mode settings
• Exercise bookmarking
• Tablet-optimized interface
• Offline accessibility
• Multi-device compatibility via Chess King account (Android, iOS, Web)

A free version allows you to explore the program's functionality with fully functional lessons. This trial includes a selection of practice and theory topics:

Practice:

1. Pawn endings
2. Rook endings
3. Bishop endings
4. Knight endings
5. Rook vs. Bishop endings
6. Bishop vs. Knight endings
7. Rook vs. Knight endings
8. Queen vs. Pawns
9. Queen & Pawn vs. Queen
10. Queen & Pawns vs. Queen & Pawns
11. Queen vs. Rook endings
12. Queen vs. Bishop endings
13. Rook checkmates
14. Checkmating with two bishops
15. Checkmating with bishop and knight

Theory:

1. Standard checkmates
2. Pawn endings
3. Knight endings
4. Bishop endings
5. Bishop vs. Knight
6. Bishop pair in the endgame
7. Rook vs. Bishop
8. Rook vs. Knight
9. Rook endings
10. Queen endings
11. Queen vs. Rook endings

Version 3.3.2 (Aug 7, 2024) Updates:

• Spaced Repetition training mode (combines erroneous and new exercises)
• Bookmark-based testing
• Daily puzzle goal setting
• Daily streak tracking
• Various bug fixes and improvements