The endgame is one of the most difficult phases of the game for beginner chess players because many beginners find the endgame boring and do not want to spend precious time studying it. Instead, many beginner players prefer to study exciting topics like tactics and openings. But what happens if you play a great opening and employ some strong tactics to gain an advantage, but you don’t have the endgame skills to convert this advantage into a full point. Understanding basic fundamentals of endgame play will go a long way towards improving your chess game as you will start to be able to incorporate deeper ideas into your opening and middlegame play as you will better understand the types of resulting endgame positions. This chess video is an excerpt from the Susan Polgar chess DVD ¨Learn the Endgame the Easy Way, Essential Basic Endgames – Part 1¨
¨To improve at chess you should in the first instance study the endgame¨ – Jose Capablanca
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