Learn The Pawn Endgames

Pawn endgames are one of the most important part of chess. In an endgame with pieces on the board you always have to consider the trading of the pieces. You have to check if that pawn endgame is good or not. Of course it's not always easy.

In the following example, 2 great chess players of the beginning of the 20th century had an exciting game when this position occured:

Well, if we don't know if an endgame is winning or not then we try to calculate some lines to evaluate the position. Pawn endgames are the easiest to calculate because there are no pieces other than the king. Here's a puzzle based on this:

If we are not able to calculate a pawn endgame til the very end then we should think logically and use some theoretical knowledge like the opposition or the rule of the square. But as always mistakes can happen. Like in this game between the World Champion GM Magnus Carlsen and the best blitz player GM Alireza Firouzja:

Pawn endgames can be very nice so there are a thuns of studies composed with only kings and pawns on the board. Here's one with a lots of pawns:

Of course it don't have to contain a lot of pawns to have a delightful solution. The following one has only 2 so that's why this is my favourite pawn endgame.

Although it's very rare, but sometimes these kind of study-like positions can occur in games. A fantastic game was played between 2 former World Champions Jose Raul Capablanca and Emanuel Lasker. Take a look!