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Avatar of Rolf1

Hey!

Is ChessMentor a good tool to learn endgames? I hear so much that endgames are the most important to study, .......

Avatar of malko

Check out the courses:

Rook and other endgames

Pawn endings.

Avatar of mpukis

Opening and middlegame are important too, because they lead you to endgame.

Avatar of wishiwonthatone

mpukis speaks true, if you don't make it through the opening and middle you won't ever see an end...

That said, if you do ever get there I just took a good course: "Pawn play in the end game" by IM John Grefe. It was excellent. Well annotated and easy to understand (most of the time) even though it's a VERY difficult subject. But if you plan to get better at your end game you better learn pawn play!

Avatar of Sorg67

I have heard that you should learn from chess from the end game backwards since the point of the openning and mid game is to set up a winning end game position.  I have done a few chess mentor exercises and enjoyed them.

Avatar of Rolf1

I think the reason people say to learn endgames first, is because there are only few pieces left, so you learn how to use those few pieces in many ways, instead of a chaos of 32 pieces at a time:)

Avatar of Sorg67

Yup, that makes sense too.