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Endgame Links

                                                                                          
Wikipedia
General advice on the endgame
Checkmate with a Queen and King
Basic Endgames
Queen against Pawn
Watch out!
  
Opposition
        
 

 













   







The Réti endgame study (and other endgames with the same idea)
YouTube video: The Réti endgame study
 
      

Another pawn endgame
Prokeš maneuver  
Lasker's Pin  
The Philidor position

   
The Lucena position
   
     

    







Rook Endings in Theory
Rook, Pawn vs Rook
The Tarrasch rule
Queen vs Pawn
Wrong bishop in the endgame
Opposite-colored bishops endgame
Endgame study by Leonid Kubbel
The importance of studying the endgame


The Saavedra position
   
 

    








Pawnless endgames 
Rook, Bishop vs Rook
Some games: Rook, Bishop vs Rook
The two knights endgame
Endgame study by Henri Rinck
      
                   
       

Solution
 
               
The Lazy Person's Guide to Endgames 
Popov - Grandelius, 2010
Two endgames  
Endgames with pawn walls
Capablanca-Janowsky, 1913
Bacrot - Anand, 2010
Kevitz – Capablanca, 1931
Botvinnik – Fischer, 1962
Pachman - Biyiasas, 1976
Quo vadis 
Wolff – Fishbein, 1988
Barcza - Haag, 1969 
Lesson with GM Nick Pert 
Kiselev - Pantsulaia, 2011
Barcza - Rossolimo, 1969   
Euwe - Yanofsky, 1946   
Anand - Topalov, 2011
Kramnik - Carlsen, 2011
Knight time
Domination Game, Slovakian surprises 
Two endgames of Anatoly Karpov
Kosikov - Besman, 1986
Tal missed a mate
Routes for the king
Artillery
Endgame tactics
Endgame tactics 2
Carlsen - Gashimov, 2011 

Do not rush, The mighty passed pawns, The eternal hunt 
 
        
              

         
         
          

 
         
  
Training endgames with help of endgame studies 
Endgame Studies, Collection 1         
 
Karsten Müller (Endgame Corner, ChessCafe)     
Nalimov Tablebases  

Test: Pawn endgame
Test: Rook endgame 

Berge Østenstad - Frode Elsness,
Norway 2009.

White didn't find the best move in the position
above.
The game continued with 30.Rf7+? Kh6 and
ended later with a draw.

Black would have been in big trouble if white had
found the best continuation. 


Solution   

          
    

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