Chess Endgame Masterclass: 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 selected exercises—challenging yet manageable for beginners—with detailed explanations and hints. The curriculum emphasizes winning with extra pawns and mastering standard checkmates, progressing from checkmates with major pieces to those with bishop and knight combinations.
Part of the acclaimed Chess King Learn series (https://learn.chessking.com/), this course utilizes a unique teaching methodology. The series offers a wide range of courses covering tactics, strategy, openings, middlegame, and endgame, catering to all skill levels, from novice to professional.
Enhance your chess skills, learn new tactical maneuvers, and solidify your knowledge through practical application. The program functions as a personalized coach, providing exercises, hints, explanations, and refutations of common mistakes.
Interactive theoretical lessons complement the practical exercises. You can actively participate by making moves on the board, clarifying unclear moves, and studying real-game examples.
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 for common mistakes
- Play against the computer
- Interactive theory lessons
- Organized table of contents
- ELO rating tracking
- Customizable test mode
- Bookmarking functionality
- Tablet-optimized interface
- Offline accessibility
- Cross-platform syncing (Android, iOS, Web) via Chess King account
Free Trial: Test the program with fully functional lessons before purchasing the full course. The free trial includes:
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
- Checkmating with two bishops
- Checkmating with bishop and knight
Theory:
- Standard checkmates
- Pawn endings
- Knight endings
- Bishop endings
- Bishop vs. Knight
- Bishop pair endgame strategies
- Rook vs. Bishop
- Rook vs. Knight
- Rook endings
- Queen endings
- Queen vs. Rook
Version 3.3.2 (August 7, 2024) Updates:
- Spaced Repetition training mode: Combines past errors with new exercises for optimized learning.
- Bookmark-based tests.
- Daily puzzle goal setting.
- Daily streak tracking.
- Various bug fixes and improvements.
