About studying end games

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minjae405

As I played chess I found out that I was very weak in the end game. So I decided to study about end games. But I don't know how. Any tips?

SaintIily

there are two important thing in endgame, checkmate and promotion

darwinsworld8

How do you get a check mate

SaintIily

there are several checkmate patterns that show often

SwimmerBill

How do you study best? Everyone is different.

For me (maybe not you) I like to study

complete games w. interesting endings,

thin books that I can actually finish, and

endings in a thick book that are similar to one in my last game that went that far.

Some people can take a thick book, start on p.1 and work thru to the end. (Not me. )  So (my suggestion) pick a plan that fits what you will actually do. 

- Bill

 

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skanrowls

I recommend you to study the basic

skanrowls

endgame first. Like, pown and king vs king or queen and king vs king something like that.

Audreyowo

Checkmating with bishops is so hard

Pyrrrrrrrrr

There is a book writted by Jesus de la Villa, "100 Endgames You Must Know" that is an excellent material to understand endgames. 

And another one by Dragan Barlov that is very good too, but Im afraid I only know the spanish edition, "Disculpen las aperturas... los finales son fundamentales"

Those are very interesting to learn endgames