Queen vs Pawn

Course 42 episodes
(1 hour 38 min)

Creators GM Avetik Grigoryan

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 min

Course overview

Unlocked 1m 15s

1. Introduction

Unlocked 45s

2. The winning technique

3. The Knight Pawn

4. Be careful

5. Exceptions

6. The rule

7. Introduction

8. It's not the same

9. Winning ideas

10. The winning squares

5m 5s

11. When the King is on the wrong place

1m 17s

12. The winning squares when The king's on d2

1m 39s

13. The other checkmate idea

1m 45s

14. c3 Pawn

1m 35s

15. The importance of pinning

1m 2s

16. Conclusion

1m 58s

17. Introduction

26s

18. The problem with Rook Pawn

1m 39s

19. When the King is very close

2m 25s

20. Allowing him to promote

10m 14s

21. The rule

35s

22. The Pawn on the 6th rank

2m 7s

23. Double Pawns

2m 12s

24. A tricky position

25. Conclusion

26. Introduction

27. d2 and e2 Pawns

28. The checkmating idea

41s

29. The idea to win the Pawns

3m 32s

30. The King in front of the Pawns

31. a3 and b3 Pawns

32. Review

33. Introduction

34. Gorgiev's Puzzle

35. Do you like watermelon? :)

36. Farago's puzzle

37. Kling's puzzle

38. Dero's puzzle

39. Skuja R.

40. Frink's puzzle

41. Beasley's puzzle

42. See you

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Course 42 episodes (1 hour 38 min)

Creators GM Avetik Grigoryan

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