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 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 trad... 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 Jeremy Silman in his book 'Silman's Complete Endgame Course' makes the statement that this Endgame isn't worth learning as it will only come up at most about 3 times in one's lifetime or possibly not ever at all. But it shouldn't take long for m... http://www.chess.com/article/view/bishop-knight-and-king-vs-lone-king Mon, 20 Apr 2009 06:53:50 -0700 http://www.chess.com/article/view/bishop-knight-and-king-vs-lone-king 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 CheckMate in 7 move whit 3 knight in a good position but this position comes form one of the worse position that took 49 move to force black into checkmate.                                             Â... http://www.chess.com/article/view/3-knights-checkmate Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:11:34 -0700 http://www.chess.com/article/view/3-knights-checkmate 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 Their has been many battles between the Knight and the Bishop. In positions, each one has its own benifits.For example, kNIGHT does better inclosed positions with many pawns. The Bishop does better with fewer pawns and open diagonals. I will provi... http://www.chess.com/article/view/bishop-vrs-knight Sun, 15 Mar 2009 12:08:56 -0700 http://www.chess.com/article/view/bishop-vrs-knight 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 Look at this endgame, we are looking for a way to draw with white     http://www.chess.com/article/view/fun-stalemate Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:22:44 -0700 http://www.chess.com/article/view/fun-stalemate this possition is a pawn sacrificing way to victory and this is sure to help you http://www.chess.com/article/view/the-brekthrough Tue, 03 Mar 2009 03:00:34 -0800 http://www.chess.com/article/view/the-brekthrough How important promotion is!! http://www.chess.com/article/view/promotion Sun, 01 Mar 2009 13:52:58 -0800 http://www.chess.com/article/view/promotion Here are a few endgames by Fischer showing important endgame concepts. Some are brilliant wins, others show how easy it is to go wrong in the final stage of the game. Don't forget to show the move list so you can see the alternative moves and int... http://www.chess.com/article/view/bobby-fischer-shows-how-to-play-endgames Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:16:50 -0800 http://www.chess.com/article/view/bobby-fischer-shows-how-to-play-endgames Watch how Capablanca manages to win against Tartakower at this didactical (end)game (which starts about move #34).Annotations from Alekhine and Reti. http://www.chess.com/article/view/capablancas-endgame-genious Tue, 17 Feb 2009 01:08:12 -0800 http://www.chess.com/article/view/capablancas-endgame-genious