Introducing the Endgame Course for Beginners, designed to elevate your chess skills with a comprehensive curriculum featuring 339 lessons and 886 exercises. This course is built upon the foundation of three renowned courses: Beginners to Club, Chess Strategy for Beginners, and Total Chess Endings. We've meticulously chosen tasks that strike the perfect balance between challenging and accessible, tailored specifically for beginners. The material is enriched with numerous explanations and hints, ensuring a smooth learning journey. A significant focus is placed on mastering the art of winning with an extra pawn, but we also emphasize the importance of standard mates, from those executed by heavy pieces to the intricate mates using a bishop and knight.
This course is part of the acclaimed Chess King Learn series (https://learn.chessking.com/), renowned for its innovative chess teaching methodology. The series spans a wide range of topics including tactics, strategy, openings, middlegame, and endgame, catering to players from beginner to professional levels.
With this course, you can enhance your chess knowledge, discover new tactical tricks and combinations, and apply what you've learned in practical settings. The program serves as a personal coach, presenting you with tasks and offering guidance when you need it. It provides hints, detailed explanations, and even demonstrates the consequences of common mistakes.
The program includes a theoretical section that delves into game strategies for specific stages, illustrated with real-life examples. The interactive format allows you to not only read the lessons but also make moves on the board and practice ambiguous scenarios.
Key advantages of the program include:
- High-quality examples, all double-checked for accuracy
- Requirement to enter all key moves as instructed by the coach
- Varied levels of task complexity
- Diverse objectives to achieve within the exercises
- Hints provided when errors are made
- Refutations shown for typical mistakes
- Option to play out any position against the computer
- Interactive theoretical lessons
- Well-organized table of contents
- Monitoring of ELO rating changes during the learning process
- Flexible test mode settings
- Ability to bookmark favorite exercises
- Adaptation to larger tablet screens
- No internet connection required
- Link to a free Chess King account for multi-device access on Android, iOS, and Web
The course offers a free section, allowing you to experience the full functionality of the program before committing to further topics. The free version includes lessons on various endgame scenarios and theoretical concepts:
- 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 - track how many days in a row the daily goal is completed.
- Various fixes and improvements
