Chess Strategies: How to Play Pawn Endgames Successfully

16 Lessons

Learn how to play Pawn Endgames! Learn about Opposition, Triangle and Zugzwang! Beginners and club players are welcome

Course Promo

This course is about pawn endgames. Sometimes pawn endgame seems to be equal: both sides have equal material. In this course I teach you how to use your king activeness, better pawn structure and reserve tempos forcing your opponent to worsen his position.

If you are a strong chess player, you may know that deep calculation helps to win pawn endgames, and I would agree with you. But anyway if you know what plan to apply in a certain position, you may calculate fewer lines.

This course consists of 15 lectures. In every lecture I cover a certain motif which can be applied in any pawn endgame.

I designed this course for beginners and club players with FIDE rating from 1200 to 2000. But if you don’t have FIDE rating, this is not a problem and it shouldn’t stop you from taking this course. Even if you are a strong player, you may not know some tricks which can be applied in pawn endgames. Learn them from this course!

After finishing this course, your chances to win approximately equal pawn endgame will improve.

Lecture 0. Introduction for CyberU.mp4

Lecture 1. Opposition.mp4

Lecture 2. King and pawn versus king.mp4

Lecture 3. Corresponding squares. Triangle.mp4

Lecture 4. Square of the pawn.mp4

Lecture 5. Outside passed pawn.mp4

Lecture 6. Shouldering.mp4

Lecture 7. The Breakout.mp4

Lecture 8. The space.mp4

Lecture 9. Active king.mp4

Lecture 10. Extra pawn - almost victory.mp4

Lecture 11. Reserve tempos.mp4

Lecture 12. Protected passed pawn.mp4

Lecture 13. Mined squares.mp4

Lecture 14. King against pawns.mp4

Lecture 15. Precise positions.mp4

Hi! I’m FM Viktor Neustroev

Experienced chess coach specializing in tactics and openings. An author of educational chess courses.

I’m playing chess since the age of 5, and after getting a Master's Degree in Economics at Novosibirsk State University (Russia) I realized that I want to connect my professional life with chess.

Currently I am teaching chess online and offline, working with both juniors and adults. Almost all of my students were ranked. I also coached the champion of Siberia among girls under the age of 9!