Yermolinsky's Practical Endgames - Volume 1 - GM Alex Yermolinsky

Endgame course by GM Alex Yermolinsky
Includes video and PGN

Language: English
Lectures: 13
Total Running Time: 9 hours 13 minutes

From the course:

Learn Real-World Endgames for Real Results

You’ve studied your king and pawn endings, your Lucena and Philidor positions, and all the basics. But unfortunately, you’re finding that real-world endgames just aren’t that simple.

You need a guide that can show you how to navigate practical endgames in all their complexity - a guide that can show you how to discipline your thinking, find hidden resources, and come up with winning plans even when it seems there are infinite variations to calculate.

And Grandmaster Alex Yermolinsky is just the man to do it. The 2-time US champion and 3-time winner of the World Open is well known as an endgame expert who gets results, and now he’s here to show you how to do the same.

In Yermolinsky’s Practical Endgames, you’ll analyze common yet challenging endgame positions in depth, learning methods to prevail in the multitude of possible variations each position holds.

In Volume I, you’ll analyze three specific situations at length:

♜Rook endgames with a pawn on the 7th rank - GM Yermolinsky shows you how you can tie your opponent down with the defense of two sides of the board to force a win

♞Bishop vs. knight scenarios - You’ll learn how these minor piece endgames show some surprising characteristics when the action is clustered in a small area of the board - and how your king can be stronger than either a knight or a bishop

♚King infiltration in bishop endgames - When pawns and bishops lock up the board keeping your king out of the opponent’s camp, you’ll know how to sneak your king in to collapse your opponent’s position and end the game with a win

Altogether, you’ll get more than 300 trainable variations and puzzles so that you can master each of these scenarios like a pro.

Rigorous Analysis for Total Chess Improvement

But perhaps the best lessons you’ll learn from this course are not any specific endgame techniques. Though you will learn many concrete maneuvers, you’ll also learn how to and spot resources you wouldn’t normally find - key skills that will benefit your entire game.

It’s all a by-product of GM Yermolinsky’s rigorous teaching approach. In each chapter, he presents you with a real master endgame or two, and you’ll analyze each one inside and out. You’ll work through numerous possible variations, learning techniques how to deal with each one. Then, you’ll go through puzzles and exercises to apply your knowledge in similar situations.

Going through the variations won’t be easy - but nobody said mastering endgames was easy! Though sure enough, you’ll internalize these concepts with repeated practice on MoveTrainer®, giving you the skills and the confidence to outplay your opponent when it counts.

And with GM Yermolinsky’s powerful video lectures, mastering these endgames will be much easier than you think. Not only is he a master presenter, you'll find it's much simpler to keep track of all the variations by walking through them with GM Yermolinsky on the board instead of through the notation.