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Welcome to my "Chess Endings - Complete Training Course"

Welcome to my Complete Course about Chess Endings, the only course you need to learn to how to play during this stage of the game.

  • $89 or 12 monthly payments of $8

Chess Endings - Complete Training Course

  • Course
  • 72 Lessons

This complete course will teach you all you need to master Chess Endings.

  • 6 hours of Video Lessons

  • 4 Free Bonuses

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Welcome to my Complete Course about Chess Endings, the only course you need to learn to how to play during this stage of the game.

We'll take you step-by-step through engaging video tutorials and teach you everything you need to know to stop losing or ruining ending positions. This course includes practical activities in every section to make sure that you'll test your new knowledge and a final activity where you will evaluate endings using all the ideas that you learned in the course.

Throughout this comprehensive course, we cover a lot of topics, including:

  • The 2 Most Important Ideas in Endings

  • Pawn Endings

  • Connected Passed Pawns

  • The Geometry of the Chess Board

  • Rook Endings

  • Zugzwang

  • Mutual Zugzwang

  • Underpromotion

  • Perpetual Check

  • Intermediate Moves

  • Opposition

  • Triangulation

  • Importance of Piece Activity

  • Stalemate

  • Slowly Improving your Position

  • Good Knight against Bad Bishop

  • Good Bishop against Bad Knight

  • Opposite colored bishops Endings

  • Queen Endings

  • Building a Fortress

  • Principle of 2 Weaknesses

  • Basic Endings without pawns

  • Advanced Endings without pawns

  • Endings with a rook pawn and a bad bishop

By the end of this course, you will improve both your practical and theoretical skills but most importantly know how to evaluate endings, without having to memorize hundreds of endings.

Sign up today, and look forward to:

  • Video Lectures

  • Practical Activities

  • Downloads

  • A Key Points Summary of what you'll learn

  • Games for you to study

No risk for you

If you're not happy with the purchase, you have 30 days to get a refund

What you'll get from this course 👨‍🎓

  • Learn how to think in the ending, without having to memorize lots of positions

  • Reduce by half your time spent in the ending

  • Improve your practical skills

  • Master the most fundamental endings

  • Master the most important motifs in endings

  • Improve your theoretical understanding

  • Identify the ending stage of the game

  • Master rook endings

  • Master pawn endings

  • Correctly evaluate pawnless endings

  • Master the 2 most important ideas in endings

  • Develop criteria to correctly evaluate all other endings with pawns, including opposite-colored bishops, minor piece and queen endings

What are the requirements or prerequisites for taking this course? 📜

  • Clearly know and understand the chess rules

  • Ideally know chess notation, although it will be explained to those who are not familiar with it

  • Any device with access to the internet, such as a mobile or a laptop

  • No software required - all the material to do the course will be provided here

Who is this course for? ☯️

  • Ambitious players, wanting to complement their opening and middlegame understanding

  • Players who ruin their games in the ending stage of the game

  • If you want to take ONE COURSE to learn everything you need to know about chess endings

  • Players who do not know the main goals of the ending

  • Anyone wanting to improve both their practical and theoretical understanding of endings

  • Anyone who is not familiar with the main ideas that impact endings, such as opposition, pawn majority, underpromotion, intermediate moves and zugzwang

  • $89 or 12 monthly payments of $8

Chess Endings - Complete Training Course

  • Course
  • 72 Lessons

  • 6 hours of Video Lessons

  • 7 Activities

  • 11 Downloadable Resources

  • 4 Free Bonuses

  • 1 Quiz

  • Instructor Q&A

  • ♾️ Lifetime Access

Contents

Introduction to the Course

Introduction
What You Need to Do the Course

The 2 Most Important Ideas in Endings

We'll learn quite a lot of ideas in this course, but here you'll learn the 2 most important ideas in endings. They relate to endings where there are pawns left on the board, which are the most common.

Passed Pawns
Preview
Attacking Pawns
Activity
Solution
Outro

What Is the Ending?

Identifying the stage of the game will help us know what we'll study in the course.

Intro
What Is the Ending?
Quiz

Rook Endings

Rook endings are the most common, that's why we'll study them deeply. After doing this section, you'll be able to play rook endings more practically while also understanding the key ideas.

Intro
Rook Plus Pawn Win Against Rook
Rook Draws Against Rook Plus Pawn
Rook Plus Rook Pawn Against Rook
Connected Passed Pawns
Importance of Piece Activity
Activity
Solution
Outro

Pawn Endings

In this section we'll study pawn endings. Pawn endings can arise from most endings, such as rook or queen endings, that's why it's critical to know how to play them.

Intro
King Plus Pawn Against King
Geometry of the Chess Board
Preview
Combining Ideas
Activity
Solution
Outro

More Ending Themes

We have already studied very important ideas in endings. In this section we'll learn other ideas that, although they are not all limited to endings, are very common in this stage of the game.

Intro
Stalemate
Perpetual Check
Building a Fortress
Zugzwang
Underpromotion
Pawn Majority
Slowly Improving Your Position
Good Bishop versus Bad Knight
Good Knight versus Bad Bishop
Principle of 2 (or More) Weaknesses
Activity
Solution
Outro

More Endings with Pawns

We'll continue studying more endings on which we have pawns, using the ideas learned on previous sections.

Intro
Opposite-colored Bishops
Opposite-colored Bishops with Additional Pieces
Minor Piece Against Pawns
Minor Piece Against Minor Piece
Queen Endings
Queen Against Pawn
Other Endings
Activity
Solution
Outro

Pawnless Endings

It is now time to study those endings where there are no pawns. We'll start with the simplest checkmates and later we'll study more advanced and harder positions.

Intro
Simplest Checkmates
2 Bishops and King against King
Bishop, Knight and King against King
2 Knights and King against King
Queen against Rook
Rook against Minor Piece
Rook and Minor Piece against Rook
Other Endings
Activity
Solution
Outro

Final Activity

In this last activity, we'll practice with different ending positions using the ideas that we learned throughout the course.

Intro
Final Activity
Solution

Next Steps

How should your chess path continue?

Next Steps
Bonus 1: Key Points Summary
Bonus 2: Instructive Endings for You to Study
Bonus 3 - Favorite Ending 1: An Amazing Triangulation
Bonus 3 - Favorite Ending 2: Breaking a Fortress
Bonus 4: Join Our Private Group

🎁 Wait, did you say free bonuses?

Free Bonus #1

Get a Key Points Summary 📃 summarizing the most important ideas from the course

Free Bonus #2

Get a List of Games With Instructive Endings ♟️ to study after doing the course

Free Bonus #3

I analyze some of my Favorite Endings 💎 that I ever witnessed through my chess career

Free Bonus #4

Join a Private Group 🔒 with other students of "Chess Endings - Complete Training Course" to interact with them

Hi, I'm Manuel

I have been studying chess for 25+ years and I've spent over 10 years in the online teaching world, refining how I work and trying to understand the changing needs of this place, which I see as the future of education. 

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“Do the work” technically involves completing the sections (including the activities). If you’ve done that and for whatever reason aren’t 100% happy with your experience, drop us an email (within 30 days of purchasing the course) and we’ll happily refund your entire payment. 

However, please note that the money-back guarantee only applies if you’ve completed the entire course and included your reason for the cancellation in the email.

Frequently Asked Questions

You’ve got questions. We’ve got answers.

Who is this course for?

This course is ideal for ambitious players who want to complement their opening and middlegame understanding. Players who regularly ruin their games during the ending stage of the game are also great candidates to take this course.

What do I need to do the course?

All you need to do the course is access to the internet and motivation to learn!

Furthermore, I’ll provide all the resources on the course page itself, so you don’t need to download anything or go to another page to take the course. Optionally, I provide additional resources to download in PDF format.

How will I access the course?

The course can be accessed using any device (such as laptop, mobile and tablet).

You’ll be able to access the course online, where you’ll get lifetime access.

Simply open the course page (after buying it), select the lesson you want to watch and click on the play button to start the lesson (see example below).

After watching a lesson, select the next one or click on ➡️ below the lesson.

If you want to view or download the additional resources, simply click on them (see example below).

How can I buy it?

Buying the course is a simple process.

1) Go to the course page https://www.panda-chess.com/chess-endings-complete-training-course and click on "Enroll Now". You’ll be asked to enter your email to login or create an account.

If this is the first time that you log in, you’ll receive a verification code at the email address used to sign up.

Use this code to sign up for the first time.

If you already have an account associated with the email address that you entered, you will be asked to enter your password.

2) Once you logged in, if you have a discount code that has not been already applied, you can add it on the right side and click on "Apply":

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Enter your payment details, click on "I accept the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy" and click on "Pay Now".

After the payment is correctly processed, you can now access the course!

If your account is a new one, your last step will be to simply create your permanent password and click on "Continue".

If you have any problems, do not hesitate to reach out to us at support@panda-chess.com.

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You can pay using a card (debit o credit) or PayPal.

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Payments with cards are processed by Stripe (https://stripe.com/) which is a worldwide leading payment processor.

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How to join the Private Group?

Join a Private Group with other students of "Chess Endings - Complete Training Course" to interact with them by following these simple steps:

1) Go to https://www.panda-chess.com/community and click on “Join Now” to join the open Panda Chess Community. You need to be logged in with your account used for purchase.

2) After you joined the Panda Chess Community, you will be added to the private group "Chess Endings - Complete Training Course" within 24 hours.

To confirm this, simply go to https://www.panda-chess.com/community/topics where you’ll see the private group.

If you still have any doubts, do not hesitate to contact us at support@panda-chess.com

If you're still doubting

Hear What Other Students Say

Bruno B.

"Very satisfied, especially because I lack teoretical knowledge about endings. Thanks."

Joseph R.

"Good. Adding more detail now. Very good. Even excellent. Well researched. Well organized. A huge topic, made easier, benefitting from your experience. Will go over it many times. Thank you."

Track

"This course is really superb! I really like the material and the instructor. The ideas were simple to understand and my knowledge of chess ending has improved immensely. Thank you so much Manuel. This course teaches simple ideas that can be used to combine together to get complex strategies. Just by listening to the course I feel like I've learned so much. I plan on going back and studying each section on a board or a chess program. I know once I get through all this my chess endings will be greatly improved."

Patrick B

"clear, complete and well presented"

Dick F.

"This is my second  or third course I purchased from you. They are  very well prepared, easy to follow, & reasonably priced."

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  • $89 or 12 monthly payments of $8

Chess Endings - Complete Training Course

  • Course
  • 72 Lessons

  • 6 hours of Video Lessons

  • 7 Activities

  • 11 Downloadable Resources

  • 4 Free Bonuses

  • 1 Quiz

  • Instructor Q&A

  • ♾️ Lifetime Access