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Knight vs Pawn

Knight vs Pawn

Course 56 episodes
(1 hour 8 min)

Creators GM Gabuzyan Hovhannes

This course will teach you the most important positions and ideas that you should apply in endgames featuring a knight and pawns.

Due to the knight’s unique movement knight and pawn endgames can be tricky to master. However, because we only cover the most critical positions that you need to know we’ve managed to condense the material into a few short sections.

Each position or idea should only take around 2 minutes to learn and you’re free to skip any section you’re already comfortable with.

During the course you’ll see many examples of how to win or hold a draw in endgames with different combinations of a knight and pawns.

You’ll see the differences between having a knight vs separated, connected, and corner pawns. And you’ll learn new techniques and ideas such as how to checkmate and how to stop pawns advancing using your knight.

Below are some of the positions from the course:

Watch this course, apply these ideas in your games, and become a master in knight and pawn endgames!

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What you'll learn

The technique of using the Knight to stop advancing pawns.
How the Knight fares against separated, connected, and corner pawns.
Checkmating ideas with the Knight.

Course overview

Lesson Plan

56 episode(s) 1 hour 8 min

1. Introduction

3. The right square

Unlocked 1m 31s

4. What a Knight

Unlocked 1m 15s

5. Where should be the Knight?

Unlocked 1m 34s

6. The generous Knight

8. Introduction

9. Don't make this mistake

10. When the King is too far

11. Preventing King's activity

12. Another generous Knight

14. Introduction

15. The opposition

16. A practical example

17. Sacrificing the Knight

18. A defensive idea

20. Introduction

21. A strong set-up

22. There is a difference

23. A stalemate idea

24. Dvoretsky's study

26. Introduction

27. The simple idea

28. Troitsky's study

30. Introduction

31. When the Pawn is too far

32. The King defends better

33. A tricky position

34. The Pawn on the 3rd rank

35. A nice trick

37. Introduction

38. The Knight can do it alone

39. Is there a danger?

40. The only place

41. There is a difference

42. The Knight is on time

44. Introduction

45. The defensive idea

46. The Pawns should be fixed

47. The ChessMood study

49. Introduction

50. The King is there

52. The blocking idea

53. A tricky tactic

54. Block first

55. Amazing defense!

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Course 56 episodes (1 hour 8 min)

Creators GM Gabuzyan Hovhannes

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