Introducing the Endgame course for beginners, featuring 339 lessons and 886 exercises designed to elevate your chess skills. This comprehensive course draws from three renowned programs: Beginners to Club, Chess Strategy for Beginners, and Total Chess Endings. We've meticulously chosen tasks that strike the perfect balance between challenging gameplay and manageable study material. Tailored for beginners, the course includes extensive explanations and hints, with a particular focus on winning techniques with an extra pawn. We also emphasize the mastery of standard mates, from those executed by heavy pieces to the intricate mates with bishop and knight.
Part of the acclaimed Chess King Learn series (https://learn.chessking.com/), this course offers an innovative approach to chess education. The series encompasses courses on tactics, strategy, openings, middlegame, and endgame, catering to players from beginners to professionals.
By engaging with this course, you'll enhance your chess knowledge, discover new tactical tricks and combinations, and apply these skills in practical scenarios. The program functions as a personal coach, presenting tasks and guiding you through solutions when you're stuck. It provides hints, explanations, and even showcases striking refutations of common mistakes.
The course includes a theoretical section that delves into game strategies at various stages, supported by real-world examples. The interactive format allows you to read the lesson text, make moves on the board, and practice unclear positions.
Key advantages of the program include:
- High-quality, double-checked examples
- Requirement to enter all key moves as instructed by the coach
- Varied levels of task complexity
- Diverse objectives to achieve within problems
- Hints provided for errors
- Refutations shown for typical mistakes
- Option to play out any position against the computer
- Interactive theoretical lessons
- Structured table of contents
- Monitoring of ELO rating changes during learning
- Flexible test mode settings
- Ability to bookmark favorite exercises
- Adaptation to larger tablet screens
- No internet connection required
- Linking to a free Chess King account for multi-device access on Android, iOS, and Web
The course offers a free section to test the program, featuring fully functional lessons that simulate real-world conditions. Topics covered in the free version include:
- Practice
- Pawn endings
- Rook endings
- Bishop endings
- Knight endings
- Rook against bishop endings
- Bishop against knight endings
- Rook against knight endings
- Queen against pawns
- Queen and pawn against queen
- Queen and pawns against queen and pawns
- Queen against rook endings
- Queen against bishop endings
- Rook mates
- Mating with two bishops
- Mating with bishop and knight
- Theory
- Standard mates
- Pawn endings
- Knight endings
- Bishop endings
- Bishop against knight
- Bishop pair in the endgame
- Rook against bishop
- Rook against knight
- Rook endings
- Queen endings
- Queen against rook endings
What's New in the Latest Version 3.3.2
Last updated on Aug 7, 2024
- Added training mode based on Spaced Repetition - it combines erroneous exercises with new ones and presents the more suitable set of puzzles to solve.
- Added ability to launch tests on bookmarks.
- Added daily goal for puzzles - choose how many exercises you need to keep your skills in shape.
- Added daily streak - tracks how many days in a row the daily goal is completed.
- Various fixes and improvements
