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Basic Endgames

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  • 1. Main Level
    Welcome to the book!Free trial
    Dogged pursuit
    The philosophy of this course
  • 2. Pawn EndgamesA01
    The shepherding position.
    The opposition: Attacker wins.
    The opposition: Defender draws.
    King in front of pawn on 5th: Defender's move.
    King in front of pawn on 5th: Attacker's move
    King in front further back: Attacker wins
    King in front of pawn further back: Defender draws.
    King beside pawn; further back.
    King in front of knight pawn
    King in front of knight's pawn: getting to the rook file.
    King in front of knight's pawn: Attacker blunders.
    King in front of Knight pawn: Defender's move
    The useless rook's pawn
    The useless rook's pawn (2)
    Connected passed pawns
    Protected passed pawn
    Protected passed pawn on third rank.
    Far back connected passed pawn win
    Pawns split by one file
    Pawns split by one file (2)
    Pawns split by 2 files
    Pawns split by 3 files
    Pawn against pawn
    Pawn v pawn: Opposition draw.
    Distant opposition.
    Breakthrough
    Breakthrough isn't always good...
    Simplification to save a bad position
    Breakthrough save.. attacker falls into a trap
    Reti chases 2 rabbits.
    When you are a pawn up, and you lose, and you are wondering why.
    Triangulation.
    Triangulation. (Very Truncated variation)
    Connected passed pawns: Avoiding a corner stalemate
    The Exchange Lopez ending
    The Exchange Lopez ending
    Pervakov chases two rabbits
    Respect Your Elders!
    The Exchange Lopez ending - an instructive error
    Truncated Triangulation.
    Rinck's Rabbit Runs!
    Reti gets the serious noms
    Moravec defers dinner time
    Rosen's Problem
    Rosen's Revenge.
  • 3. Mating with Q+K v K
    Mating with the queen, the basic plan.
    Mating with the queen: First example.
    Mating with the queen: Example 2
    Mating with the queen: Example 3
    Mating with the queen: Example 4
    Mating with the queen: Example 5
    Mating with the queen: Example 6
    Mating with the queen: Example 7
    Mating with the queen: Example 8
  • 4. Queen v pawn
    Queen v centre pawn on the 7th.
    Queen v rook pawn on 7th: Attacker's king too distant
    Queen v rook pawn. Attacker's king close enough to win
    Queen v rook pawn. Attacker's king close enough to win (2)
    Bishop pawns are tricky too!
    Bishop pawn: An attacker win.
  • 6. Rook endingsA00
    Introduction
    Saavedra's position
    Bogoljubow's Blunder
    Bogoljubow's correct defence.
    Bogoljubow's correct defence. (2)
    Two pawns on the 6th beat a rook. But king position matters!
    Two pawns on the 6th lose to a rook + well placed king.
    Two pawns on the 6th lose to a rook + well placed king. (2)
    Two pawns on the 6th lose to a rook + well placed king. (3)
    Connected pawns v rook: frozen from the front.
    Connected passed pawns, frozen from the front; attacker botches it.
    Connected passed pawns, frozen from the front; attacker botches it. (2)
    (Nelson points at you....) Ha Ha!
    Connected passed pawns, frozen from the front; attacker botches it even worse
    The Alekhine - Capablanca classic.
    Another Reti classic
    Rook pawn win: The most obnoxious defence.
    An extra pawn isn't much use if your king is trapped in the phantom zone.
    The last rank defence.
    The last rank defence. Black tries checks from afar.
    Last rank defence blundered away
    Too cramped for the last rank defence
    Carlsen...before he was Carlsen
    Play better than Magnus! (did once in 2006)
    Ugggh. That one again.
    The Lucena .... draw??
    Tarrasch Janowski variant
    Tarrasch Janowski actual finish
    King position: Black gets it wrong twice!
    Rubinstein - Lasker, St Petersburg 1909
    Two rooks against one
    Two rooks against one (2)
    Two rooks against one (3)
    Two rooks against one (4)
    Two rooks against one (5)
    Why the rook check?
    Why the rook check? (2)
    More detail: Why did Lasker resign?
    More detail: Why did Lasker resign? (2)
    More detail: Why did Lasker resign? (3)
    More detail: Why did Lasker resign? (4)
    Connected passed pawns, frozen from the front; attacker botches it. (2) Desiman variation.
    Rook + 2 connected pawns v Rook
    Rook + 2 connected pawns v Rook: Just the last bit
    The Alekhine - Capablanca classic. Actual finish.
    Rubinsteian - Lasker: A forcing line after 38... Ke7
    Connected Kt + B pawns
    Connected Kt + B pawns (2)
  • 5. Mating with king and rook.
    The slow and boring way
    Mating with the rook - reasonably quickly.
  • 7. Bishop v pawn (s)
    Wrong colour rook pawn.
    Wrong colour rook pawn (2)
    The cramped king defence
    A not quite cramped enough king
    Bishop v 2 connected pawns
    Bishop v two connected pawns (2)
    Bishop v 2 connected pawns (3)
    Bishop v 3 connected passed pawns
    Bishop v 3 pawns draw: The last, final probe for idiocy.
    Bishop v split pawns (draw)
    Bishop v split pawns - pawns win.
  • 8. Opposite colour bishop endings
    The Shirov wonder move
    Study by J Berger, 1922
    Opposite bishops connected pawns draw
    NOT the connected pawns draw.
  • 9. Same colour bishop endings
    Getting in front of the pawn
    Be careful about those bishop swaps!
    The Centurini position
    Janowski's coulda been
    Triangulation with the bishop
    A surprisingly unreliable blockade
    Three squares on the shorter diagonal..
    Reader's Request: Duda - Ivanchuck.
  • 10. Mating with 2 bishops
    Example 1
  • 11. Knight EndingsA00
    The classic corner escape.
    The classic corner draw
    Not the corner draw.
    One does not simply *walk* into More Draw.
    The circuit
    But not just any old square!
    The Last Hope
    The Last Hope - the Director's cut.
    What you see when your students think you have spent too long teaching them knight endings.
    Play silly games, win silly prizes.
    Knights really hate rook pawns
    A knight and his force field
    Bwahahaha!
  • 12. Bishop v Knight Endings
    Introduction
    Introduction (2)
    Black cunningly avoids a knight fork.
    As advertised, it was possible to get things wrong...
    INFAMY!!!
    The knights of the round table.
    Another simple corral
    The OK Corral?
    Whoa Horsie
    Woe Horsie!
    Take my land, take my land for the stalemates that I love.. Do fence me in...
    Even a king can catch a horse in the corner
    Corral with an overly advanced pawn.
    Three little twists
    First little twist
    The third twist
    Who watches the Watchman?
    Who watches the Watchman? (move 6 alternative)
    Knight Pawn Knight Watchman
    Knight blockades knight pawn (1)
    Knight blockades knight pawn (2)
  • 14. Queen v Rook
    Ponziani's draw.
    Q v R Philidor Position (1)
    Q v R Philidor Position (2)
    Q v R Philidor Position (3)
    Q v R Philidor Position (4)
    Q v R Philidor Position (5)
    The Second Rank Defence (1)
    Second Rank Defence (2)
    Second Rank Defence (3)
    Second rank Defence (4)
    Second Rank Defence (5)
    Second rank Defence (6)
    Second Rank Defence (7)
    Second rank Defence (8)
    Second Rank Defence (9)
    Second Rank Defence (10)
  • 15. Endings by the World ChampionsB01
    Englisch - Steinitz, London 1883
    Your Not So Humble Author - NN.
  • 13. Rook v Minor Piece
    Rook v Knight (1)
    Rook v Knight (2) - defender loses
    The Arabian position
    An Arabian error.
    Rook v Knight (5)