15 Rules For The Endgame (Chess Ending Principles)

From Reuben Fine's very old book, Basic Chess Endings. Hope you learn a thing or two!

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[JrbWheaton]

“Hmmm Hitler invading USSR, Japan attacking Pearl Harbor, world in shambles. Now is a good time to write a book about chess endings”

-Reuben Fine, 1941

[niboR]

Blockaded pawn doesn‘t mean backward pawn. A blockaded pawn can‘t move because there is a piece in front of it

[seto]

A similar principle that Edward Lasker attributed to his relation is, in an ending with bishop and knight, put them on the same colour as often as possible in order to control different-coloured squares.

[viktorvondoom]

Thank you Nelson. Personal notes:
4:42 Rule 3: When ahead 1 or 2 pawns, trade pieces but not pawns
7:00 Rule 4: When 1 or 2 pawns behind, trade pawns but not pieces
7:50 Rule 5: When you have an advantage, do not leave all your pawns on one side
19:42: Rule 14: A rook on the 7th or 2nd rank is sufficient compenation for a pawn (if it can block off the enemy's king)

[CxdyCxdy]

Love that you basically gathered the keypoints to an interesting book that I would 100% would have never read and made it into something super interesting & easy to understand visually

[dennisharrell]

I have this book, although I haven't looked at it in years. English Descriptive notation seems so archaic now. My copy came with an insert listing pages of corrections (or mistakes). At the time nobody had ever attempted such an ambitious encyclopedic treatment of chess endgames. It was inevitable there would be mistakes. In the "Queens Gambit" TV series I recall Beth Harmon telling Benny Watts "I found another mistake in Fine's book". Yes, give us more content like this.

[powerlinkers]

Stuck at 1800 because I am weak in endgames… I always lose out due to time pressure in the endgames. Your video is helpful. Thank you.

[LordSoviet]

I would definitely find it interesting to see more endgame techniques. Quite often I find myself with a palpable advantage and then blunder it away into a draw or loss in the late middle or end game.

[adriansrfr]

Doing summaries of books and key takeaways is a great idea. Thanks!

[williamrheartloft]

Right now I'm thinking that I'm bad at endgame and you just post at the same time as I'm thinking that lol

[randybarnhart]

I’m so glad that you found this old book and summarize the 15 rules. This was very interesting. Nice job

[ilmanti]

Man, you're some kind of psychic. I've been watching video after video about the endgame because I essentially lose every game that gets down to K+P or K+P+a piece and stockfish yells at me a lot, and now you come out with this nugget of gold. Thank you :)

[trickyknights]

I love how simple yet complex the endgame phase is! Thanks for another amazing video Nelsi

[DDigitalDreamer]

Great teaching, great concepts and PACE. Many others are moving at lightspeed and are difficult to follow. Bravo.

[bobroth]

I haven't played chess in years, but this is a really good tutorial! You can learn a lot in 22 minutes! Excellent presentation! You make it seem easy. Well done!!

[PabloLopezDuque]

Your content is so useful that every video I feel like adds up a little brick building my chess knowledge, it's perfectly sumarize, it really shows you spend time preparing your content. Thanks Nelson

[denzilsemtex]

Love the way you reference old books vs stockfish odds, very good to analyse

[alexalexvnhcm]

00:00 Intro
00:39 1.Avoid doubled, isolated and backward pawns
02:48 2.Push passed pawns as rapidly as possible
04:42 3.When ahead 1 or 2 pawns, trade pieces but not pawns
07:00 4.When behind 1 or 2 pawns, trade pawns but not pieces
07:49 5.When you have an advantage, leave pawns on both sides of the board
09:03 6.With pawns on only one side of the board, 99% of the time it's a draw (when ahead by 1 pawn)
11:36 7.Pure pawn endings are the easiest to win
12:04 8.Easiest endgames to draw are opposite colored bishops
12:56 9.The king is a strong piece, use it!
13:53 10.Don't put your pawns on the same color as your bishop
15:28 11.Bishops are better than knight in all position (except blocked positions)
16:47 12.2 bishops vs a bishop and knight constitute a tangible advantage
17:49 13.Passed pawns should be blockaded by kings or knights
19:42 14.A rook on the 7th rank is sufficient compensation for a pawn
21:03 15.Rooks belong behind passed pawn

[rollyicecream]

Mr Nelson ur channel is the best chess channel on youtube. I wish u to become a GM. U desereve it

[mchammer]

On rule number 2: “can still win the game using that” that is the point of Reuben Fine using that pawn to the advantage not necessarily protecting it to promote to queen like you were explaining. That is why he is a GM.