Chess Strategies: How To Play Minor Piece Endgames

22 Lessons

Learn how to play Minor Piece Endgames! Winning plans: how to exploit your positional advantage.

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Sometimes when you pass the game into the endgame and the material is equal, for example, only a few minor pieces and a few pawns left, you think that it should be a draw. But very often it is not so. You can win if you have a positional advantage or an extra pawn on one of the sides.

Of course, the winning plan usually is not clear. That's why you need this course to learn what typical minor pieces endgames plans are. It will help you to improve your skills of playing the endgames.

This course contains 24 tips about how to play minor pieces endgames. The course is divided into 4 sections:

Bishop Endgames
Knight Endgames
Bishop vs Knight Endgames
Knight vs Bishop Endgames

And in each section I demonstrate you positions from real games between Grandmasters and explain the winning plans!

Lecture 1. About the course.mp4

Knight Endgames

Lecture 2. Knight and Rooks Pawn.mp4

Lecture 3. Deflections.mp4

Lecture 4. Pawns on the same side.mp4

Lecture 5. Space and Kings activeness.mp4

Lecture 6. Positional advantage.mp4

Lecture 7. King activeness and tactics.mp4

Bishop Endgames

Lecture 8. Good bishop vs bad bishop.mp4

Lecture 9. How to make a passed pawn.mp4

Lecture 10. The principle of 2 weaknesses.mp4

Lecture 11. Extra Pawn.mp4

Lecture 12. The Crippled Majority.mp4

Lecture 13. Small weaknesses.mp4

Lecture 14. 2 Passed Pawns.mp4

Lecture 15. Pawn Placement.mp4

Lecture 16. 2 connected passed pawns.mp4

Knight vs Bishop Endgames

Lecture 17. Knight vs Bad Bishop.mp4

Lecture 18. Knight in the center.mp4

Lecture 19. Knight and Pawn Weaknesses.mp4

Bishop vs Knight Endgames

Lecture 20. Bishop and Knight in open position.mp4

Lecture 21. Bishop and Knight symmetrical pawn structure.mp4

Lecture 22. Knight near the edge.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!