How to Learn Chess Endgames: A Guide for Club Players
Chess endgames are the game’s final phase, where the outcome is often decided by precise calculation and technique. Many chess players struggle with endgames because they find them boring, difficult,…
The Wrong Corner
“Still round the corner there may wait,A new road or a secret gate.”J. R. R. Tolkien Anyone can start learning chess. There is an ocean of information available online, as…
Knight Against Rook’s Pawn
One of my new pupils is a very bright but inexperienced 11 year old, who’s been playing his father, a novice himself, at home for a couple of years, but…
“Tactics are temporary, endgames are permanent” (5)
IM Kostya Kavutskiy This week’s online puzzle that caught my attention was a Kings and pawns endgame. It brought back memories of so many students that struggled to play them…
“Tactics are temporary, endgames are permanent” (4)
IM Kostya Kavutskiy The 2 knights versus pawn endgames have always fascinated me. In one of my older articles, I have mentioned that I won such an endgame in correspondence…
How To Win Chess Endgames Like A Grandmaster
Grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky, one of the best online blitz and bullet players ever, teaches me how to solve chess endgames. Drop a like and let me know in the comments if you’d like to see more educational content! Check out…
“Tactics are temporary, endgames are permanent” (3)
IM Kostya Kavutskiy Last week we had an opportunity to revisit the Saavedra position and the history behind it. This gave me the idea to find a few endgame studies…
Carbon versus Silicon (3)
“The human mind isn’t a computer; it cannot progress in an orderly fashion down a list of candidate moves and rank them by a score down to the hundredth of…
Lucky Lucena
I was looking through some of the games played in last weekend’s 4NCL congress when I came across this rook ending. It was played in Round 2 between Julian Cast…
Tactic from my tournament game
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