Embark on your journey to mastering chess endgames with our comprehensive course designed specifically for beginners. With 339 meticulously crafted lessons and 886 engaging exercises, this course is your ultimate guide to understanding and excelling in the endgame phase of chess. It builds upon the foundational knowledge from three other courses: Beginners to Club, Chess Strategy for Beginners, and Total Chess Endings, ensuring a well-rounded learning experience.

Our course is tailored to meet the needs of beginners, featuring tasks that strike the perfect balance between challenge and accessibility. We've included a wealth of explanations and hints to guide you through the learning process. A significant focus is placed on techniques for winning with an extra pawn, but we also emphasize mastering standard mates, from those executed by heavy pieces to intricate mates using a bishop and knight.

This course is part of the renowned Chess King Learn series (https://learn.chessking.com/), which offers an unparalleled method of chess education. The series covers tactics, strategy, openings, middlegame, and endgame, catering to players at all levels, from beginners to professionals.

By engaging with this course, you'll enhance your chess knowledge, discover new tactical maneuvers and combinations, and apply what you've learned in practical scenarios. The program serves as your personal coach, presenting you with tasks to solve and offering assistance when you're stuck. It provides hints, explanations, and even demonstrates the consequences of common mistakes.

The course includes a theoretical section that delves into game strategies at various stages, illustrated with real-life examples. This section is interactive, allowing you to not only read the lessons but also make moves on the board and explore unclear positions.

Key advantages of the program include:

• High-quality, double-checked examples
• Requirement to enter all key moves as instructed
• Varied levels of task complexity
• Diverse objectives to achieve within the problems
• Hints provided for errors
• Refutations shown for typical mistakes
• Ability to play out any task position against the computer
• Interactive theoretical lessons
• Structured table of contents
• Monitoring of ELO rating changes during learning
• Flexible test mode settings
• Option to bookmark favorite exercises
• Adaptation to larger tablet screens
• No internet connection required
• Linking to a free Chess King account for multi-device access on Android, iOS, and Web

The course offers a free section where you can experience the full functionality of the program. This allows you to test the application in real-world conditions before diving into the following topics:

Practice

• Pawn endings
• Rook endings
• Bishop endings
• Knight endings
• Rook against bishop endings
• Bishop against knight endings
• Rook against knight endings
• Queen against pawns
• Queen and pawn against queen
• Queen and pawns against queen and pawns
• Queen against rook endings
• Queen against bishop endings
• Rook mates
• Mating with two bishops
• Mating with bishop and knight

Theory

• Standard mates
• Pawn endings
• Knight endings
• Bishop endings
• Bishop against knight
• Bishop pair in the endgame
• Rook against bishop
• Rook against knight
• Rook endings
• Queen endings
• Queen against rook endings

What's New in the Latest Version 3.3.2

Last updated on Aug 7, 2024

• Added training mode based on Spaced Repetition - it combines erroneous exercises with new ones and presents the more suitable set of puzzles to solve.
• Added ability to launch tests on bookmarks.
• Added daily goal for puzzles - choose how many exercises you need to keep your skills in shape.
• Added daily streak - how many days in a row the daily goal is completed.
• Various fixes and improvements