The Chess GuruChess endgame drills with the Guru
Famous and instructive endgame positions. Pick one, play it out against the Guru from the highlighted side.
Every endgame, explained
- K+P vs K - Opposition (white wins)
- K+P vs K - Outside-the-square (draw)
- K+2P vs K - connected passers
- K+2P (doubled) vs K+P
- K+Q vs K - basic mate
- K+R vs K - basic mate
- K+B+N vs K - bishop+knight mate
- Two bishops vs king
- R+P (any) mating with back-rank cut
- Rook vs pawn on 7th
- Lucena Position (white wins)
- Philidor Position (defended draw)
- Vancura Defense (draw)
- R+P vs R - king cutoff
- Tarrasch rule: rooks behind passed pawns
- K+R vs K+N (winning technique)
- K+R vs K+B (drawn fortress)
- Opposite-color bishops fortress
- Bishop + rook pawn, wrong-square bishop (draw)
- Bishop pair vs knight pair
- Good vs bad bishop
- Knight vs bishop, open position
- Knight vs bishop, closed position
- Knight outpost on the 6th
- Bishop vs knight, both with extra pawn
- Knight vs rook pawn
- Queen + pawn vs queen
- Queen vs rook
- Queen vs rook pawn
- Pawn breakthrough
- Pawn endgame zugzwang
- Triangulation in K+P endings
- Stalemate trick
- Saving with perpetual check
- Back-rank mate setup
- Smothered mate motif
- Anastasia's mate
- Arabian mate
- Boden's mate
- Wrong bishop with h-pawn (draw)