Chess Endings for Beginners

A comprehensive endgame course for beginners, featuring 339 lessons and 886 exercises!

This curriculum builds upon three foundational courses: Beginners to Club, Chess Strategy for Beginners, and Total Chess Endings. We have meticulously selected exercises that are challenging yet accessible for study. The material is tailored for beginners and rich with explanations and hints. Significant focus is placed on techniques for converting an extra pawn into a win. We also highly recommend mastering standard checkmating patterns, progressing from mates with heavy pieces to the more complex bishop and knight mate.

This program is part of the Chess King Learn series (https://learn.chessking.com/), a revolutionary chess instruction method. The series encompasses courses in tactics, strategy, openings, middlegame, and endgame, categorized by skill level from beginner to advanced, even including content for professional players.

Utilize this course to enhance your chess understanding, discover new tactical ideas and combinations, and apply your knowledge in practical scenarios.

The software functions as a personal coach, presenting problems to solve and offering guidance when you need help. It provides hints, detailed explanations, and demonstrates decisive refutations for common mistakes.

An integrated theoretical section explains key strategic methods for specific game phases using illustrative examples. This theory is interactive, allowing you to not only read the lesson material but also make moves on the board to explore variations.

Program Highlights:

♔ High-quality examples, all verified for accuracy

♔ Requires input of all key moves as instructed

♔ Tasks with varying difficulty levels

♔ Diverse objectives to achieve in each problem

♔ Automatic hints provided after errors

♔ Refutations shown for typical incorrect moves

♔ Option to play any position from the exercises against the computer

♔ Interactive theoretical lessons

♔ Clearly structured table of contents

♔ Tracks rating (ELO) changes throughout your learning journey

♔ Customizable test mode with flexible settings

♔ Bookmark your favorite exercises for easy access

♔ Optimized for tablet displays

♔ Fully functional offline

♔ Sync your progress across devices by linking the app to a free Chess King account (Android, iOS, and Web)

The course includes a free trial so you can evaluate the program. The free lessons are fully functional, letting you experience the application's features before purchasing additional topics:

1. Practice

1.1. Pawn endings

1.2. Rook endings

1.3. Bishop endings

1.4. Knight endings

1.5. Rook against bishop endings

1.6. Bishop against knight endings

1.7. Rook against knight endings

1.8. Queen against pawns

1.9. Queen and pawn against queen

1.10. Queen and pawns against queen and pawns

1.11. Queen against rook endings

1.12. Queen against bishop endings

1.13. Rook mates

1.14. Mating with two bishops

1.15. Mating with bishop and knight

2. Theory

2.1. Standard mates

2.2. Pawn endings

2.3. Knight endings

2.4. Bishop endings

2.5. Bishop against knight

2.6. Bishop pair in the endgame

2.7. Rook against bishop

2.8. Rook against knight

2.9. Rook endings

2.10. Queen endings

2.11. Queen against rook endings

What's New in the Latest Version 3.3.2

Last updated on Aug 7, 2024 * Introduced a new Spaced Repetition training mode that blends missed exercises with new ones for optimal puzzle selection.
* Added functionality to run tests on bookmarked exercises.
* Implemented a daily puzzle goal to help you maintain your skills.
* Added a daily streak counter to track how many consecutive days you meet your goal.
* Various bug fixes and performance enhancements.