Endgame trainer
Classic positions: convert or defend them against the engine at full strength.
Rook and pawn: the Philidor defence
The defence that draws a pawn down in rook endings. If you only learn one rook endgame, make it this one.
The rook behind the passed pawn
Why the rook belongs behind the passed pawn: yours gains freedom with every advance and his loses it.
The rule of the square
Working out whether a king catches a passed pawn without calculating moves: the trick that saves time in every endgame.
The rook pawn doesn't win
King and rook pawn versus king: a draw if the defender reaches the corner. Saves half a point many times a year.
Queen versus rook pawn: a draw
The exception worth knowing: with a rook pawn on the seventh, the queen alone doesn't win. Stalemate defends.
Queen versus bishop pawn: a draw
Bishop pawn on the seventh against a queen: the king runs to the corner and stalemate draws.
Opposite-coloured bishops: the fortress
Why opposite-coloured bishops are the drawiest ending of all: each one lives on a different board.
The wrong-coloured bishop
Bishop and rook pawn with the queening square of the opposite colour: a draw even a whole piece up.
Rook versus knight: holding on
Defending rook versus knight: king and knight side by side, away from the corners, and it's a draw.
The queen mate
Mating with king and queen. The first mate to master, and the one that causes the most stalemates.
The two-bishop mate
The hardest of the basic mates. Two bishops do mate, but only in the corner and with the king helping.
Two connected pawns
How to advance two connected pawns without losing them: the free pawn ahead, the other behind covering.
Converting a pawn majority
Creating a passed pawn from a majority: advance the candidate first, the one with no opponent in front.
Rook and pawn: the Lucena position
The most important rook endgame of all: converting an extra pawn by building the bridge.
Pawn endgame: king in front of the pawn
King and pawn versus king: with the king in front of the pawn on the sixth, it always wins. The rule to know by heart.
Queen vs pawn on the seventh
The queen's approach technique: forcing the king to block its own pawn to gain tempi.
Rook vs bishop: the safe corner
Defending the rook-vs-bishop endgame: the king holds the safe corner and it's a draw.
Same-colored bishops: the passed pawn
Queening a passed pawn with same-coloured bishops: take the blocking diagonal away from his bishop.
The rook checkmate
The elementary king-and-rook vs king mate: the barrier technique and the opposition.