Online chess community where you can play chess, learn strategies and tactics, read chess news, see book reviews, find rules & tips, get free downloads, and more! http://www.chess.com/ 2007 Chess.com  I first saw an endgame study by Leonid Kubbel in a book on combinations by Irving Chernev during my student days.I still remember my sense of awe and wonder at the way in which the Black monarch was chased and how he was mated with a lone knight... http://www.chess.com/article/view/a-prince-among-composers Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:31:18 -0700 http://www.chess.com/article/view/a-prince-among-composers In this article, we are going to look at positions where you are down to your last pawn, while your opponent still has a piece left. Facing a knight, bishop, rook, or even a queen, what are some of the positions where the lowly pawn can still lead... http://www.chess.com/article/view/one-lowly-pawn Sat, 05 Sep 2009 09:52:44 -0700 http://www.chess.com/article/view/one-lowly-pawn As all the chess.com members here surely know, any game that comes down to K+B vs K or K+N vs K is immediately declared "drawn due to insufficient material".   With just those three pieces left on the board, a mating position cannot be created e... http://www.chess.com/article/view/mating-with-insufficient-material Sat, 15 Aug 2009 09:31:50 -0700 http://www.chess.com/article/view/mating-with-insufficient-material We have all had games where we knew we were winning, but we couldn't seem to finish it off with a win.  You play well enough to get to a position where you both know you are winning, but then he seems to play better or you play worse.  You have... http://www.chess.com/article/view/how-to-finish-a-won-game Sun, 02 Aug 2009 23:43:20 -0700 http://www.chess.com/article/view/how-to-finish-a-won-game Van Perlo's Endgame Tactics Third, Improved Edition New In Chess.2008 Edition:Large Paperback Pages:480 I began* this article as a book review.But thanks to the interest of the readers it has become a practice session on the endgame.So her... http://www.chess.com/article/view/endgame-tacticspart-ii Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:51:42 -0700 http://www.chess.com/article/view/endgame-tacticspart-ii Van Perlo's Endgame Tactics Third, Improved Edition* New In Chess.2008 Edition:Large Paperback Pages:480 Winner of the ECF BOOK of the YEAR 2006 Award. ChessCafe 2006 Book of the Year Award. No,  these awards really do not matter.So wh... http://www.chess.com/article/view/endgame-magic Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:15:05 -0700 http://www.chess.com/article/view/endgame-magic Alexei Shirov was born on July 4, 1972 in Riga, Latvia. He is known as an attacking player. Mikhail Tal said the young Shirov was not inferior to Tal in the calculation of complications. Shirov was the World Champion U-16 in 1988. In 1988, Shirov ... http://www.chess.com/article/view/shirov--2-bishops-v-kramnik--rook--fire-in-the-end Sat, 11 Jul 2009 13:42:18 -0700 http://www.chess.com/article/view/shirov--2-bishops-v-kramnik--rook--fire-in-the-end In this game, Black falters in the opening a little, but recovers in time to get to an endgame without too much damage.  Just when it looks like we're in for one of those long rook endgames where both sides are trying to play offense and defense ... http://www.chess.com/article/view/its-never-too-late-for-mate-part-2 Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:14:39 -0700 http://www.chess.com/article/view/its-never-too-late-for-mate-part-2 Here are some endgame/middlegame puzzles: 1) Difficulty Easy                             2) Difficulty Easy                           Today I only had time to create 2 puzzles. I will ma... http://www.chess.com/article/view/2-endgamemiddlegame-puzzles Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:00:39 -0700 http://www.chess.com/article/view/2-endgamemiddlegame-puzzles As I was buzzing around the forums, spreading useless and, in some very rare cases, useful information, I noticed several members of the community expressing their belief that a King + Rook vs. King Endgame is a difficult checkmate. That really sh... http://www.chess.com/article/view/rook--king-vs-king Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:19:56 -0700 http://www.chess.com/article/view/rook--king-vs-king When and when not to trade into the endgame? We ask this question many times during our chess games. Usually trading into the endgame means exchanging one's major piece- Queen. The following characteristics are common causes for one side to trade ... http://www.chess.com/article/view/her-highness--queen Thu, 18 Jun 2009 23:41:13 -0700 http://www.chess.com/article/view/her-highness--queen This is an amazing position, where white's pawn beats black's rook. http://www.chess.com/article/view/king--pawn-beats-king--rook Tue, 21 Apr 2009 22:57:37 -0700 http://www.chess.com/article/view/king--pawn-beats-king--rook Rubinstein again.Study starts from move 40 http://www.chess.com/article/view/an-interesting-endgame-study Mon, 20 Apr 2009 05:00:28 -0700 http://www.chess.com/article/view/an-interesting-endgame-study When one side has just king and the other has king and a pawn ,the side with the lone king can still pull out a draw.Here is the trick: From here on if you make a bad move you're dead.Here is what you should do:                 http://www.chess.com/article/view/king-and-pawn-vs-king-stalemate Sat, 18 Apr 2009 13:54:05 -0700 http://www.chess.com/article/view/king-and-pawn-vs-king-stalemate Hello everyone! In this article I will tell you some interesting facts (you probably know some of them) and show endgames in which there are 3 knights and king verses a king. Facts : 1) You can't checkmate a lone king using a king and bishop onl... http://www.chess.com/article/view/3-knights---king-vs-king Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:15:50 -0700 http://www.chess.com/article/view/3-knights---king-vs-king Some tactics about how the a (or h pawn) at the 7th (or 2nd) can proceed to queen.Some of them take place very often at the chessboard and it's very useful to know them..                                   Â... http://www.chess.com/article/view/rookcorner-pawn-at-the-7th-vs-rook Mon, 13 Apr 2009 04:10:24 -0700 http://www.chess.com/article/view/rookcorner-pawn-at-the-7th-vs-rook Hello again! Unlike my previous articles, this one shows an ending in which it is king, knight and bishop verses a lone king. * This is very hard to perform and also difficult to learn. The one secret I know is that to checkmate the opponent usin... http://www.chess.com/article/view/king-knight-bishop-vs-king-ending Sun, 12 Apr 2009 14:49:50 -0700 http://www.chess.com/article/view/king-knight-bishop-vs-king-ending Many of you are probably familiar with the principle that, when a bishop is on the board in an endgame, you want to push your pawns on the opposite color of that bishop and keep your opponent's pawns on the color of that bishop. So, for instance, ... http://www.chess.com/article/view/instructive-bishop-endgame Sun, 22 Mar 2009 13:20:17 -0700 http://www.chess.com/article/view/instructive-bishop-endgame So, do you want to learn the endgame? Well I'll tell you about checkmating your opponent using your rook and king or queen and king. The most important thing is enclosing the opponent into i tiny box without getting a stalemate. To do this, you mu... http://www.chess.com/article/view/hey-chess-fans Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:18:15 -0700 http://www.chess.com/article/view/hey-chess-fans Here is a truly well-played endgame by Fischer. It is part of his run to his historic match with Boris Spassky in 1972. He is able to get a small advantage from the opening and middlegame, which he translates into a bishop vs knight endgame. There... http://www.chess.com/article/view/scientific-analysis Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:57:02 -0700 http://www.chess.com/article/view/scientific-analysis