
Many often struggle to win theoretically winning endgames. Or they find it hard to defend positions that are simple theoretical draws.
This is where knowledge of the most important endgame positions and concepts helps.
For example, just by knowing the concept of opposition and the square rule, you can accurately predict the outcome of almost every King and pawn vs King endgame.
Similarly, knowing some important positions and concepts in the Rook endgame, like the Lucena position, Philidor position, will make it easier to play this type of ending.
Today, we’ve launched a course, Must-know theoretical endgames, where you’ll learn the most important positions and concepts from the pawn endings, Rook endings, Queen vs pawn endings, and others.
This course is aimed at players below 2000 level. It focuses only on the essential positions and concepts without going into more depth as the specific endings under the Step-by-step Endgame Mastery section.
You can watch the course from here 👇
https://chessmood.com/course/endgames-you-must-know
Also, GM Gabuzyan has written an article where he shares the must-know positions from the King and pawn endgames. Read it here 👇
https://chessmood.com/blog/theoretical-king-and-pawn-endgames
Share your thoughts under this forum thread.
- Mike Waddington 2 years agoDear GM, I have watched and digested this course. A long time ago I was shown a simple way of mating with bishop and knight and was wondering if you were aware of this. Just set up say Bb3 and Nd3 and use the king to shoulder. By extension a Bb5 and Nd5 forms a barrier and you use the king to shepherd the other king into the corner. This I had worked out for myself and was pleasantly surprised to find recently in Dvoretsky. I know this is only for the 2000 range but I would love you to explain R and B v R sometime. I have spent days and still am unable to grasp it even though I managed to win over the board as my opponent had even less understanding ! Thx Mike