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How do you study for end game chess?
7 Ways to Improve Your Endgame Play
- Dedicate enough time to studying endings.
- Study practical positions.
- Use “easy-to-hard” approach.
- Don’t be intimidated by the endgames.
- Practice the most common endgames with a partner.
- Analyze important endgames played by GMs.
- Track your endgame statistics.
What is endgame theory chess?
In chess and chess-like games, the endgame (or end game or ending) is the stage of the game when few pieces are left on the board. Compared to chess opening theory, which changes frequently, giving way to middlegame positions that fall in and out of popularity, endgame theory is less subject to change.
How do you pass a pawn?
It prevents a pawn from using the two-square advance to pass an adjacent enemy pawn without the risk of being captured….The conditions are:
- the capturing pawn must be on its fifth rank;
- the captured pawn must be on an adjacent file and must have just moved two squares in a single move (i.e. a double-step move);
What should chess beginner study?
Playing slow games (and using your time to think), solving tactics, and reading material from strong players (some chess.com articles, books such as Irving Chernov’s Logical Chess: Move by Move, etc are good) will be useful. By the way, some opening study is fine.
What is more important endgame or opening?
I wouldn’t say that openings are worthless, but they are generally significantly less important than tactics (most games are won and lost because one player overlooked simple relationships between pieces that led to substantial material loss) and endgames.
What is the best way to study endgame studies?
And, of course, solving compositions/study was the best solution. I browsed through the collection of my chess books related to endgame studies. I found one by Dvoretsky and Pervakov, there was also the book of Domination in 2545 positions by Ghenrikh Kasparyan.
How to play chess endgames for beginners?
Chess Endgames | 10 Principles for Beginners 1 Master the basic checkmates 2 Master the basics of technique 3 Push passed pawn 4 Activate your king 5 Play “Backwards-to-Forwards” Chess 6 Beware of “German Words”! 7 Find and use the pawn majority 8 Use the principle of two weaknesses 9 Be Concrete & Calculate! 10 Fewer Pieces = Less Room for Error!
How do you study chess effectively?
Set-up the position on a real board. I try to make my study sessions as close to tournament conditions as possible. Even if you use an online program, such as chess.com’s Tactics Trainer or ChessTempo, I recommend setting up the positions.
Is the Endgame difficult for beginners?
For a lot of beginner level chess players, the endgame can be a difficult challenge. Many of my early games ended in checkmate in the middlegame, so I did not have a lot of early experience playing endgames. However, knowing what to do in the final stage is just as important as anything else.