Basic Endgames
Lots of games go into endgames every day which is why this is almost as important as your opening. Today, I will show you the King & Rook endgame, the King & Queen endgame and the King & Pawn endgame.
So, first of all, let us start with the King & Pawn endgame, the pawn being the only piece that is not actually considered a piece! So first, I will show you how the beginning of such an endgame would look like!
Myself, I am not an expert at this endgame so I do not really know the exact way to do it but the simplest way is to always follow this rule Always have your king next to the pawn unless of course the opposing king is too far away to be able to stop you. I will show you a quick overview of this endgame:
I may not have checkmated Black in the fastest possible way but this way kind of works as well. I think I have also covered here the King & Queen endgame so we can move on to the final endgame (King & Rook)
This endgame is useful to know as well as it is quite common for a chess game that goes into an endgame. So first I will show you how the start of a King & Rook endgame would look like:
In this endgame there is also a simple rule to get to checkmating the king Keep making the King’s box of space smaller. I will now demonstrate:
Again, this may not be the fastest way but it is certainly effective
Yet another blog post has (sadly) come to an end but don’t worry because tomorrow I will be posting about Common Checkmates (Part 1 of 3) so stay tuned for that. Bye!
