The chess endgame with a king and a pawn versus a king is one of the most important and fundamental endgames, other than the basic checkmates. It is an...

The rook and pawn versus rook endgame is a fundamentally important, widely studied chess endgame. Precise play is usually required in these positions...

escort pawns to promotion, attack enemy pawns, protect other pieces, and restrict the movement of the enemy king. Not all chess games reach an endgame; some...

diagram 9.12A The queen and pawn versus queen endgame is a chess endgame in which both sides have a queen and one side has a pawn, which one tries to promote...

The chess endgame of a queen versus pawn (with both sides having no other pieces except the kings) is usually an easy win for the side with the queen....

U+1FA00 Neutral Chess King Bare king Chess piece Finial – top of king, often a monarch's King and pawn versus king endgame King's graph Mann – the non-royal...

the black pawn (see King and pawn versus king endgame § Rule of the square) and the king is a long way from supporting his own pawn. However, White can...

pawn or the capture of an opponent's pawn. Key squares are useful mostly in endgames involving only kings and pawns. In the king and pawn versus king...

factor in the endgame – the endgame setup in diagram 1, for example, quite frequently is relevant in play (see King and pawn versus king endgame). The position...

Backward pawn Chess piece Chess piece relative value Connected pawns Doubled pawns Isolated pawn King and pawn versus king endgame Passed pawn Pawn structure...

most commonly in endgames with only kings and pawns when one king can maneuver on three adjacent squares in the shape of a triangle and maintain the basic...

promote his pawn. Either way, the result is a draw. (Also see King and pawn versus king endgame, the section Rule of the square.) Not all studies are as simple...

possibilities in the king and pawn versus king endgame. One is that the pawn can be captured before it promotes. Another one is that the pawn can promote without...

Philidor's position) is a chess endgame involving a drawing technique for the defending side in the rook and pawn versus rook endgame. This technique is known...

The two knights endgame is a chess endgame with a king and two knights versus a king. In contrast to a king and two bishops (on opposite-colored squares)...

the opposition and wins. (See King and pawn versus king endgame.) If it were White's turn to move, Black would have the opposition and the position would...

side at bay and draw the game instead of lose it. King and pawn versus king endgame – fundamental endgame with a king and pawn versus a king. Key square...

In a chess endgame of a king, bishop, and pawn versus king, a wrong rook pawn is a rook pawn (a pawn on the a- or h-file) whose promotion square is the...

chess endgame is a chess endgame in which only a few pieces remain, and no pawns. The basic checkmates are types of pawnless endgames. Endgames without...

and most important uses of corresponding squares is in this king and pawn versus king endgame. Assume that the black king is in front of the pawn and...

extremely unbalanced endgame would have ensued, with Kasparov having a rook and bishop versus the World Team's knight and four pawns. The central position...

well-known rook and pawn versus rook endgame position in which the player with the extra pawn can force a win by cutting off the opponent's king and placing a...

result in an endgame. This article uses algebraic notation to describe chess moves. When a pawn is promoted, it is removed from the board, and the new piece...

checkmate. Incidentally, DTC = DTM in the unusual endgame of two knights versus one pawn because capturing the pawn (the only material Black has) results in a...

trading down to such an endgame. These endgames are normally drawn when one side has a one-pawn advantage. Two or even three extra pawns may not suffice for...

pawn versus rook endgames is another type of fortress in a corner (see diagram). The defender perches their king on the pawn's queening square, and keeps...

most important position in endgame theory. It is fundamental in the rook and pawn versus rook endgame. If the side with the pawn can reach this type of position...

wipe out lone passed pawns (and also checkmate the king, but this is less important as usually enough pawns survive to the late endgame to allow checkmate...

position. Again, see Wikibooks – Chess/The Endgame for a demonstration of how the king and rook versus king mate is achieved. In the third diagram position...

examined the endgame of a knight versus a pawn, and formed the basis of later work by Alexey Troitsky in the twentieth century. In the fifteenth and sixteenth...