Chess Strategies: How to Play Queen Endgames Successfully

Learn how to play Queen Endgames! Learn Staircase Manoeuvre and crosschecks! Beginners and club players are welcome.

This course is about queen endgames. Queen Endgames are the most complicated: there is always a chance for a perpetual check and a lot of mating threats, and, of course, many stalemating ideas. Moreover, sometimes it’s impossible to find the right move yourself, if you don’t know this position and principles of playing queen endgames.

There are 31 lectures in the course. And each lecture covers a certain motif or problem that arises in Queen Endgames.

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 queen endgames. Learn them from this course!

After finishing this course, your chances to win queen endgames will improve.

Lecture 1. Introduction.mp4

Lecture 2. The Staircase Manoeuvre.mp4

Lecture 3. Rook-pawn.mp4

Lecture 4. Bishop-pawn.mp4

Lecture 5. Winning Zones with Rook and Bishop-Pawns.mp4

Lecture 6. Pawn on the 6th rank.mp4

Lecture 7. Close enough to bishop-pawn.mp4

Lecture 8. Who promotes first and what then.mp4

Lecture 9. Useless pawn.mp4

Lecture 10. Kings location.mp4

Lecture 11. Pawn on 6th rank but still a draw.mp4

Lecture 12. Double pawns on the same file.mp4

Lecture 13. Double rook-pawns.mp4

Lecture 14. King entering the winning zone.mp4

Lecture 15. Queen stops 3 connected pawns.mp4

Lecture 16. Far from the pawn.mp4

Lecture 17. Which pawn to take.mp4

Lecture 18. Queen and Pawn vs Queen.mp4

Lecture 19. An easily converted extra pawn.mp4

Lecture 20. Perpetual check.mp4

Lecture 21. Mating themes.mp4

Lecture 22. A difficult to convert extra pawn.mp4

Lecture 23. Basic Ideas in Queen Endings.mp4

Lecture 24. One more example.mp4

Lecture 25. Strong or weak pawn.mp4

Lecture 26. Defensive check.mp4

Lecture 27. Queen blocks the pawn.mp4

Lecture 28. Avoid traps.mp4

Lecture 29. Bad position of the king.mp4

Lecture 30. Interposition.mp4

Lecture 31. Bad position of the king and the queen.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!