Nunn's Chess Endings Volume 1

Forget the artificial compositions and studies.

This Practical Course Sets You Up For
Real-Life Endgame Success, One Tactic At A Time

Grandmaster John Nunn returns to Chessable. This time, he's giving you the keys to playing and winning practical endgames!

Inside Nunn's Chess Endings Volume 1, the three-time world chess problem-solving champion and former top-10 player goes beyond standard endgame techniques. Instead, he shows how you can use these methods to...

Find The WIN Or Save The Draw...
Even In Tricky And Highly Tactical Positions

Forget the beautiful but artificial compositions and studies, which look nothing like the endgames you play.

In keeping with his practical philosophy, GM Nunn built this course with positions from over-the-board and correspondence matches...making sure your training with gears you up for real games.

Every position builds your ability to calculate with precision, recognize key ideas in a snap, and find imaginative solutions to unique problems. All of which are critical endgame skills that "spill over" and level-up your overall play.

Inside the course, GM Nunn shows you how to:

🎯 Zugzwang your way to a victory. "Pass" the move to your opponent, force them to self-destruct, and pick up the full point.

🎯 Avoid the most common point-losing errors. Even masters commit these mistakes, letting draws and wins slip by with just one move.

🎯 Muscle your way past the defenses, creating an unstoppable passed pawn. After which, winning is all but guaranteed!

🎯 Exploit the opponent's poor king position. So you can pick off enemy pawns at will with your own king.

🎯 Perfectly timed knight sacrifices, which give you a brand new queen...create a swarm of passers...or take the steam out of the enemy's pawns.

🎯 How to use logical reasoning to play opposite-colored bishop endgames more accurately than a computer.

🎯 Whip up unstoppable mating attacks in queen endings, turning seemingly drawn positions into stylish wins.

🎯 And smoothly transition from one endgame to another, while keeping all of your positional advantages intact.

That's just a small sample of the endgame techniques you'll find in Nunn's Chess Endings Volume 1, and you can find many more in Nunn's Chess Endings Volume 2 as well.

Over 330 tactical exercises break down, not just the essentials, but also the concrete endgames least discussed in most training books. By the time you're done with the course, you'd have overhauled your technique...playing endgames with complete confidence and pinpoint accuracy.

But don't take our word for it...

Take Up Nunn's Chess Endings Volume 1 Today,
And See The Difference Yourself!

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For: both pieces

Recommended for: Intermediate players Advanced players Expert players

Instruction: 130,303 words

Informational variations: 409

Puzzles: 347

Avg. line depth: 5.28

Released on: Feb 12, 2021

Support level: High

Section: 📚 Publisher

Nunn's Chess Endings Volume 1

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Variation Details

9 x Conventions and Terminology (2.67 avg depth)

13 x Introduction (8.38 avg depth)

13 x Chapter 1 The Three Key Endgame Skills (5.38 avg depth)

1 x Chapter 2 Pawn Endings (1.00 avg depth)

69 x 2.2 Zugzwang Based Ideas (4.90 avg depth)

22 x 2.3 Breakthrough (3.86 avg depth)

28 x 2.4 King Position Ideas (4.68 avg depth)

9 x 2.5 Reserve Tempi (5.33 avg depth)

11 x 2.6 All the Pawns on One Side (3.91 avg depth)

40 x 2.7 Outside Passed Pawns (6.30 avg depth)

12 x 2.8 Space Advantage (4.75 avg depth)

8 x 2.9 Active King vs Outside Passed Pawn (4.50 avg depth)

7 x 2.10 Multiple Passed Pawns (4.29 avg depth)

12 x 2.11 Surprise Moves (5.08 avg depth)

10 x 2.12 Stalemate (3.30 avg depth)

49 x 2.13 Transformation to a Queen Ending (7.18 avg depth)

1 x Chapter 3 Knight Endings (1.00 avg depth)

9 x 3.2 Knight vs Pawns (4.67 avg depth)

6 x 3.3 Knight + Pawn vs Pawn (3.67 avg depth)

17 x 3.4 Knight + Pawn vs Two Pawns (3.47 avg depth)

22 x 3.5 Knight + Pawns vs Pawns (More Pawns) (4.55 avg depth)

11 x 3.6 Knight + Pawn vs Knight (4.00 avg depth)

7 x 3.7 Knight + Two Pawns vs Knight (7.14 avg depth)

16 x 3.8 The Outside Passed Pawn (5.81 avg depth)

10 x 3.9 Sacrificing a Knight (5.40 avg depth)

6 x 3.10 Common Error: Promoting Too Soon (4.00 avg depth)

10 x 3.11 Mate, Stalemate and Breakthrough (4.90 avg depth)

1 x Chapter 4 Same-Coloured Bishop Endings (1.00 avg depth)

6 x 4.2 Bishop vs Pawns (3.50 avg depth)

22 x 4.3 Bishop and Pawns vs Pawns (4.82 avg depth)

92 x 4.4 Bishop and Pawns vs Bishop and Pawns (5.47 avg depth)

1 x Chapter 5 Opposite-Coloured Bishop Endings (1.00 avg depth)

7 x 5.2 Logical Thinking (4.14 avg depth)

12 x 5.3 Breakthrough (7.50 avg depth)

7 x 5.4 Disconnected Passed Pawns (4.00 avg depth)

5 x 5.5 Zugzwang (3.40 avg depth)

1 x Chapter 6 Bishop vs Knight Endings (1.00 avg depth)

45 x 6.2 The Bishop Has the Advantage (6.69 avg depth)

63 x 6.3 The Knight Has the Advantage (5.16 avg depth)

1 x Chapter 7 Queen Endings (1.00 avg depth)

14 x 7.2 Stalemate (3.79 avg depth)

11 x 7.3 Mating Attack (4.73 avg depth)

11 x 7.4 Queen and Pawn vs Queen (7.18 avg depth)

10 x 7.5 Queen and Two Pawns vs Queen (5.70 avg depth)

8 x 7.6 Queen and Pawn vs Queen and Pawn (7.63 avg depth)

6 x 7.7 Liquidation to a Pawn Ending (6.33 avg depth)

5 x 7.8 Common Error: Random Checking (4.00 avg depth)

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