need endgame help

Endgames are extremely important in chess and king and pawn endgames are especially important because they are the foundation to most endgames! I actually have a video on how to win with one pawn and using king opposition in this way is super important for chess. It is worth your time to learn this endgame really well. Once you are practiced with this, then you can move to more complicated endgames. Here’s the video I mentioned:

https://youtu.be/orCBaFAyqSs?si=MfOhWtS_9AyhaxSS

Buy Yuri Averbakh's Chess Endings: Essential Knowledge (under $20) and a chess board. Covers all the basics, simple read. This will serve you well.

You can follow up with Silman's Endgame (under $40). Other books may be too advanced for your current level

Forget YouTube, podcasts, most forum advice, etc. Old school, simple works best.

#1 learn zugzwang, how to draw king v king + pawn, make sure you know how to checkmate with just queen or rook and king. Also I think maybe more complicated are multi pawn endgames so perhaps learn then later? Take what I say with a bucket of salt, you are higher elo than me right now lol.

I recommend Irving Chernev’s book, Practical Chess Endings. It is a great teaching book aimed at beginners to club players.

This is a very normal stage for improving players. Endgames often feel uncomfortable at first because the game becomes much more ‘quiet’, and you no longer have many tactical or structural cues to rely on.

It’s not really that you are missing something specific, more that the position stops giving you the same kind of guidance you get in the middlegame.

Over time this usually improves naturally as a few very simple patterns start to feel familiar, especially with king activity and basic pawn play.

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