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Basic rules and strategic ideas in pawn endings. Opposition. Diagonal Opposition. Distant Opposition. Key squares. Reserve Tempi. Triangulation. The Rule of the Square. Common Square. Pawn Breakthrough. Zugzwang. Mutual Zugzwang.
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Key squares and the opposition are the basic rules in king and pawn endgames. This video is recapitulation of positions P-12, P-13 and P-14 from Basic Chess Endgames by GM Vlado Kovacevic.
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Checkmate Exercises Find checkmate in a given number of moves!
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GM Vlado Kovacevic is a member of our team and his great books are a valuable part of this portal. Vlado is a legendary Croatian chess Grandmaster and leading endgame expert. Vlado wrote excellent Chess Endings books in 7 volumes. Most of his work is published in Croatian language and some also in English. […]
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Collection of chess endgames puzzles In this post you can find ChessEndgames.net collection of instructive chess endgames puzzles. We choose puzzles from classical chess endgames, chess studies and practical chess games. Puzzles are updated periodically, new puzzles are added, some of old puzzles may be excluded. We have included some very easy puzzles, […]
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What is chessendgames.net? Chessendgames.net is a chess portal specialized for endgames. Our intention is to cover everything related to chess endgames. It is designed for both educational approach for those who want to learn the theory and encyclopedic approach for those who want to research particular theme. Who is it for? Everyone interested in […]
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For beginners who want to learn the basics: We recommend to go through the book Basic Endings by Vlatko Kovacevic. You can read it online in our pgn reader. Each position in the book has links to previous and next position; it should be fairly easy to navigate through the book. For advanced […]
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Vlado Kovacevic: Chess Endgames (7 books) World chess literature abounds in numerous works in which the rich chess experience accumulated over the centuries has been systematically presented. Due to a richness of possibilities and the brilliancy of combinations, the attention of most authors has been centred on the theory of openings and the middle game. […]
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