Chess Endings for Beginners

Chess Endgame Mastery: A Beginner's Guide (339 Lessons & 886 Exercises!)

This comprehensive chess endgame course builds upon three foundational courses: Beginners to Club, Chess Strategy for Beginners, and Total Chess Endings. It features carefully curated exercises—challenging enough to be engaging, yet accessible to beginners. The course provides abundant explanations and hints, focusing heavily on winning with an extra pawn. Mastering standard checkmates is also emphasized, progressing from checkmates with major pieces to those involving bishops and knights.

Part of the Chess King Learn series (https://learn.chessking.com/), this course employs a unique teaching methodology. The series offers a wide range of chess courses covering tactics, strategy, openings, middlegame, and endgame, catering to all skill levels, from beginner to professional.

Enhance your chess skills, learn new tactical maneuvers and combinations, and solidify your knowledge through practical application. The program functions as a personal coach, providing exercises, hints, and detailed explanations, even demonstrating refutations of common errors.

An interactive theoretical section complements the practical exercises. Lessons use real-game examples and allow you to actively manipulate the board, clarifying complex moves.

Key Features:

• High-quality, verified examples
• Guided input of key moves
• Exercises with varying difficulty levels
• Diverse problem-solving objectives
• Hints for error correction
• Refutations of typical mistakes
• Play against the computer
• Interactive theoretical lessons
• Organized table of contents
• ELO rating tracking
• Customizable test mode
• Bookmarking feature for favorite exercises
• Tablet-optimized interface
• Offline accessibility
• Cross-platform compatibility (Android, iOS, Web) via Chess King account

A free version allows you to try the program before purchasing. The free lessons are fully functional, offering a realistic preview. Topics covered in the free version include:

Practice: Pawn endings, Rook endings, Bishop endings, Knight endings, Rook vs. Bishop, Bishop vs. Knight, Rook vs. Knight, Queen vs. Pawns, Queen & Pawn vs. Queen, Queen & Pawns vs. Queen & Pawns, Queen vs. Rook, Queen vs. Bishop, Rook checkmates, Mating with two bishops, Mating with bishop and knight.

Theory: Standard mates, Pawn endings, Knight endings, Bishop endings, Bishop vs. Knight, Bishop pair in the endgame, Rook vs. Bishop, Rook vs. Knight, Rook endings, Queen endings, Queen vs. Rook endings.

Version 3.3.2 (Aug 7, 2024) Updates:

• Spaced Repetition training mode: Combines past mistakes with new exercises for optimized learning.
• Bookmark-based testing.
• Daily puzzle goal setting.
• Daily streak tracking.
• Various bug fixes and improvements.