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Collection – First Steps Endgames
Endgames can be overwhelming for beginner chess player. There is too many important concepts, positions to know by heart, endgame rules and principles. We created this set of endgames to make first encounter with endgames as easy as possible. It was important to make it small and relatively simple, so here we have only […]
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Collection – Basic Checkmates
This is set of basic checkmate positions.
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Knight versus Pawn Endings – test your knowledge
Test your knowledge of endgame positions Knight vs Pawn with this simple quiz!
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Overview of Basic Pawn Endgames
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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Opposition and Key Squares in King and Pawn vs King endings
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 Puzzles
Checkmate Exercises Find checkmate in a given number of moves! Checkmate tactics puzzles
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GM Vlado Kovacevic: Basic Chess Endings
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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