
Queen vs Pawn
Most Queens vs Pawn endgames arise out of pawn races.
One side promotes their pawn to a Queen. The other is left with an advanced pawn 1 or 2 squares away from promotion.
In that case:
- How do you decide if the Queen can stop the pawn in time or not?
- If it can, what’s the technique to do so?
This course will show you the exact technique you need to know to figure out how to stop the pawn.
You’ll also see some exceptions and how the Queen fares against advanced and connected pawns.
Below are some positions taken from the course:
In the end, you’ll become better and faster at evaluating pawn races.
If you’re an advanced player who has studied this ending, our Grandmasters have a challenge for you! 😉
Go to the last section of the course (Section-5), and solve the puzzles you find there!
You’ll find many strange ideas and patterns which even surprised our GMs, while they were collecting material for this course.
Let’s begin!
What you'll learn
- The technique with the Queen to stop a far-advanced pawn from promoting.
- The cases where the Queen cannot stop the far-advanced pawn.
- How the Queen fares against advanced connected passed pawns.
Lesson Plan
42 episode(s) 1 hour 38 minStudents give this course an average of 4.8 out of 5 stars.

Gor Avetisyan

Кирилл Семенов

Captain Hook
WIM_Siranush Ghukasyan
gnana sekar

Muizzuddin Yaqeen

skipper chess

Inguh Kim

Jean marc LEPRETRE

Artyom Manukyan

Bradley Loh
Nils Philipp

GM Avetik Grigoryan
After having a successful playing career where he became the Armenian Champion in 2010, GM Avetik Grigoryan found his passion for chess coaching and switched to it full-time.
Since then, he has guided many ambitious players to become Grandmasters and International Masters and has over 10 years of coaching experience.
He believes anyone can improve at chess, with the right mood and proper direction. And with that vision, he founded ChessMood in 2018.
After having a successful playing career where he became the Armenian Champion in 2010, GM Avetik Grigoryan found his passion for chess coaching and switched to it full-time.
Since then, he has guided many ambitious players to become Grandmasters and International Masters and has over 10 years of coaching experience.
He believes anyone can improve at chess, with the right mood and proper direction. And with that vision, he founded ChessMood in 2018.