Chess Endings for Beginners

Chess Endgame Mastery: A Beginner's Guide (339 Lessons & 886 Exercises!)

This comprehensive chess endgame course builds upon three prior courses: Beginners to Club, Chess Strategy for Beginners, and Total Chess Endings. It features carefully curated exercises—challenging yet manageable for beginners—with ample explanations and hints. The curriculum emphasizes winning with an extra pawn, while also covering essential checkmating techniques, progressing from checkmates with major pieces to those with a bishop and knight.

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

Enhance your chess skills, learn tactical maneuvers, and solidify your knowledge through practical application. The program acts as a personalized coach, providing exercises, hints, and detailed explanations, even highlighting refutations of common mistakes.

The course integrates interactive theoretical lessons, allowing you to actively participate in the learning process by making moves on the virtual board. The theoretical section uses real-game examples to illustrate key endgame concepts.

Key Features:

• High-quality, verified examples
• Step-by-step guidance through crucial moves
• Exercises with varying difficulty levels
• Diverse problem-solving objectives
• Real-time feedback and hints
• Refutations of typical errors
• Play against the computer
• Interactive theoretical lessons
• Organized table of contents
• ELO rating tracking
• Customizable test modes
• Bookmarking functionality
• Tablet-optimized interface
• Offline accessibility
• Multi-device compatibility (Android, iOS, Web) via Chess King account

Free Trial: Explore the free portion of the course to experience the program's functionality. The free lessons are fully interactive, allowing a complete trial before unlocking additional content. The free version includes:

1. Practice:

• Pawn Endings
• Rook Endings
• Bishop Endings
• Knight Endings
• Rook vs. Bishop Endings
• Bishop vs. Knight Endings
• Rook vs. Knight Endings
• Queen vs. Pawns
• Queen & Pawn vs. Queen
• Queen & Pawns vs. Queen & Pawns
• Queen vs. Rook Endings
• Queen vs. Bishop Endings
• Rook Checkmates
• Checkmating with Two Bishops
• Checkmating with Bishop & Knight

2. Theory:

• Standard Checkmates
• Pawn Endings
• Knight Endings
• Bishop Endings
• Bishop vs. Knight
• Bishop Pair in the Endgame
• Rook vs. Bishop
• Rook vs. Knight
• Rook Endings
• Queen Endings
• Queen vs. Rook Endings

Version 3.3.2 (Aug 7, 2024) Updates:

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