What youtube videos do you recommend?
Forget videos. Play the puzzles here and tutorials if you dont know basic concepts and use board editor to create positions of similar endgame scenarios you can get with your openings.
Practice endgames down a pawn and with piece disadvantages sometimes to challenge yourself to think through more thoroughly. Then equal endgames will feel easier-ish-ly.
Endgame work can feel like purgatory so split it into 2 sessions of 10-15min rather than going 30min straight.
After initial 20hrs of variety of endgame practice start rotating every week specializing in endgame positions for 1 opening only. Then the nxt week do another.
Obviously at lower level games can splatter into a million possibilities so still do random endgame puzzles for 50% of your endgame training.
Practice endgames down a pawn and with piece disadvantages sometimes to challenge yourself to think through more thoroughly. Then equal endgames will feel easier-ish-ly.
Endgame work can feel like purgatory so split it into 2 sessions of 10-15min rather than going 30min straight.
After initial 20hrs of variety of endgame practice start rotating every week specializing in endgame positions for 1 opening only. Then the nxt week do another.
Obviously at lower level games can splatter into a million possibilities so still do random endgame puzzles for 50% of your endgame training.
@drSabrotna said in #2:
> Forget videos. Play the puzzles here and tutorials if you dont know basic concepts and use board editor to create positions of similar endgame scenarios you can get with your openings.
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> Isn't there some kind of like patterns in endgame too? If so, then i prefer wtching videos about it to understand it better then i will try to play it after until i get used to it.
> Forget videos. Play the puzzles here and tutorials if you dont know basic concepts and use board editor to create positions of similar endgame scenarios you can get with your openings.
>
> Isn't there some kind of like patterns in endgame too? If so, then i prefer wtching videos about it to understand it better then i will try to play it after until i get used to it.
I recommend some endgame books like "Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual" or "100 endgames you should now". Most people study openings even at an early stage. But if you spend some time in endgames even before studying any opening, you'll see how your whole way of thinking about the game will change.
@Jemwil41
I suggest the "100 endgames you must know" book by GM de la Villa
I suggest the "100 endgames you must know" book by GM de la Villa
It is good to learn from basic endgame books, but writing articles or making videos to teach someone about the basic endgame patterns will help you to understand them better.
And as always, the Nalimov tablebase should prove invaluable for handling sparse endgames.
@Jemwil41 said in #1:
> What youtube videos do you recommend?
Try putting your opponent in Zugzwang. They will stand no chance
> What youtube videos do you recommend?
Try putting your opponent in Zugzwang. They will stand no chance
@newlinkwave said in #4:
> I recommend some endgame books like "Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual" or "100 endgames you should know"
I just did my endgame library research, I find the most useful these two (second's author is Jesús de la Villa), but you could consider also John Nunn's "Understanding Chess Endgames" and Jeremy Silman "Endgame Course".
Then there is Naroditsky's "Mastering Complex Endgames", but I find it too difficult at the moment.
> I recommend some endgame books like "Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual" or "100 endgames you should know"
I just did my endgame library research, I find the most useful these two (second's author is Jesús de la Villa), but you could consider also John Nunn's "Understanding Chess Endgames" and Jeremy Silman "Endgame Course".
Then there is Naroditsky's "Mastering Complex Endgames", but I find it too difficult at the moment.
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