Endgame studies — 80 curated, SAE-tagged positions
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80 curated endgame studies, every one tagged with the SAE concepts that fire on the position. Each study has a board diagram, side-to-move, result with best play, full move-by-move solving guide (collapsed by default), and the underlying concepts.
Endgame studies
- Advancing the far advanced passed pawn — pawn
- Bishop and pawn endgame fortress — minor
- Centralized king dominates in rook endgame — rook
- Promoting past a hostile king and bishop — minor
- Rook and pawn endgame: active defense — rook
- Queen and king trap scattered king — queen
- Knight and pawn coordinate for promotion — minor
- Unstoppable passed pawn breakthrough — minor
- Pawn and knight versus lone king — minor
- Exposed king and weak back rank — mixed
- Queen and king coordinate to stop back rank threats — mixed
- Defensive fortress with opposite-colored bishops — minor
- Passed pawn promotion with active king — pawn
- Rook checks force the winning queen sacrifice — mixed
- Rook and pawn endgame fortress — rook
- Queen and king against rook endgame — mixed
- Passed pawn breakthrough with active king — minor
- Rook and pawn fortress against active rook — rook
- Queen and king checkmate the lone king — queen
- bishop controls squares against passed pawns — minor
- rook controls promotion square draws — rook
- Rook and pawn endgame holding the draw — rook
- Opposite-coloured pawns with active king — pawn
- Passed pawn with active king support — minor
- Knight and pawn cooperate to advance — minor
- Bishop and pawns endgame fortress — minor
- Rook and king checkmate pattern — mixed
- Advanced pawn's promotion threat wins — mixed
- Cutting off the king from promotion — pawn
- Advancing passed pawns with king support — pawn
- rook placement stops pawn promotion — rook
- passive rook placement holds the draw — rook
- Passed pawn forces enemy piece sacrifice — minor
- Rook and passed pawn endgame technique — rook
- Knight and pawn coordinate to promote — minor
- Rook and pawn endgame with active king — mixed
- blockaded pawn cannot overcome defensive bishop — minor
- Rook and king checkmate technique — rook
- Rook and pawn endgame fortification — rook
- Promoting through a blockade — minor
- Promoting while stopping the opponent's pawn — pawn
- Escaping the corner trap with a far-advanced pawn — pawn
- Queen sacrifice to promote the pawn — queen
- Promoting past a trapped bishop — minor
- Promoting pawn blocked by king — pawn
- Rook and pawn endgame fortress hold — rook
- Queen and pawn against rook and pawn — mixed
- Passed pawns race to promotion — pawn
- Rook and pawn endgame: cutting off the king — rook
- Rook and pawns dominate exposed king — rook
- Queen and king dominate rook endgame — mixed
- Knight trapped on the back rank — minor
- Advanced pawn with active king support — minor
- Rook and pawn coordination in the endgame — mixed
- Seventh rank pawn with rook support — mixed
- Rook and pawn fortress holds the draw — rook
- Queen and king coordination in endgame — mixed
- Queen and king coordinate to trap rook — mixed
- King and knight versus lone king — minor
- Passed pawn blockade with weak king — minor
- Rook and pawn versus bishop and pawn — mixed
- Breakthrough with passed pawns — pawn
- Advancing the passed pawn to promotion — pawn
- King and pawn versus king and pawn endgame — pawn
- Distant king cannot stop both pawns — pawn
- Queen checkmate with restricted king escape — queen
- Cutting off the king with a rook — mixed
- Fortress with wrong-coloured bishop — minor
- Active minor pieces overcome passed pawns — minor
- Bishop and pawn fortress with opposite-coloured bishops — minor
- Rook and pawn coordination for promotion — mixed
- Stopping a dangerous passed pawn — mixed
- Defending a passed pawn from the front — pawn
- Zugzwang with separated passed pawns — pawn
- racing pawns determine endgame outcome — pawn
- Fortified pawn stops advance — pawn
- King support ensures passed pawn promotion — pawn
- Rook and king coordination to checkmate — rook
- Rook and pawn endgame: passing pawn advantage — rook
- passive rook allows king to advance — rook