How to Win Pawn Endgames | Key Squares & Basic Position

[@mrpsokolowski]

Great basic video with a clear explanation! Keep the momentum going, congrats!

[@douglasmagno-fe2es]

Your pronunciation is very clear so that it makes it easier for a non-native like me to understand all the content.

[@bikramdhibar1]

Nice, please make videos like this. This is really helpful.

[@Himanshu-l6q1u]

Nice video, useful pawn endings one should master to climb up the ladder. "Key squares" idea makes this really easy to remember! Your first endgame video- nicely presented, without overcomplicating. Great job!

[@MyDadsRulesChessTraining]

Apparently, you've never had a lesson from a chess master. Spoiler alert....you STILL haven't. LOL!

[@Himanshu-l6q1u]

​​​​​​@@MyDadsRulesChessTraining Chess master is nothing, you are nothing "Mr.29 Subscribers"😂

[@MyDadsRulesChessTraining]

@@Himanshu-l6q1u Your chess weakness will NEVER be cured by your insane jealousy. Sad for you!

[@Himanshu-l6q1u]

​@@MyDadsRulesChessTrainingOn the contrary, it's obvious to everyone that you are the one who is insanely jealous of a beginner who is more successful than you are because of her work ethic, professionalism, attention to detail and natural charisma. Focus on these qualities and you may get more subscribers.

[@zizhiqu]

Excellent stuff. We all should have a solid grasp of the absolute basics of these end games, especially when low on the clock. Nothing worse than trying to work stuff out from first principles when you’ve got three seconds on the clock. Much better to know where you king should be, and get him there without wasting time.

[@masetade]

Thanks for sharing your chess learning journey.

[@renatomercurio4774]

Wow, I was thinking, I knew these well. But I learned a lot in 11 minutes.

[@grandezamalek4245]

I'm here learning English and chess 😊 your accent is so clear

[@samiqala6543]

Amazing you simplify everything and make them very clear thank you very much you are so cool🎉🎉🎉🎉.

[@LarryMiceli]

Great content. Thank you!

[@fitnesswitness1311]

Nice lesson ,i learned alot please follow up wth more tutorials

[@HouselineTV]

All the videos are great, really well thought out and structured.

[@Steveross2851]

I want to first of all acknowledge how Emily's videos continue to improve (I'm a subscriber and “like” number 100). I'm glad she finally made an endgame video. Emily should make some basic opening videos too. Having said that let me say that Emily still doesn't elaborate on positions enough. The first position in this video is one of the two most important king and pawn endgames in chess because it occurs so often and Emily explains it perfectly. The other of two most important king and pawn endgames (which I think Emily should have covered right after her first position) is e.g. White king on c5, White pawn on c6, and Black king on c7 which is drawn no matter who moves. The reason it's so important (besides occurring so frequently) is that many people defend it incorrectly and thus lose for Black. Black draws by continuously playing ...Kc8, ...Kc7, ...Kc8 etc. except to answer Kb6 with ...Kb8 or ...Kd6 with ...Kd8. The most important thing to know in that endgame is that White wins if the pawn gets to c7 without check but that c7+ only draws since after ...Kc8 in response White either loses the c-pawn or stalemates Black with a pawn in either case. Though drawn White often triangulates hoping that Black will instead of answering 1.Kb6 with 1...Kd8 Black often blunders with e.g. 1...Kc8?? losing to 2.c7 Kd7 3.Kb7 etc. Emily's second position is important to know too but I was initially going to say that Emily shouldn't have moved on at 6:01 of the video without mentioning that White needs to watch out for not drawing after e.g. 1.Kf6 Kh7 2.Kf7 Kh8 3.g6?? Stalemate (a draw Emily finally got around to explaining in a mirror image position at 8:41 of the video with White's pawn on the b-file instead of the g-file. The correct way to win the position at 6:01 of the video (where Emily breaks off) is 1.Kh6 when White wins easily after e.g. 1...Kh8 2.g6 Kg8 3.g7 Kf7 4.Kh7 etc. The position at 9:08 of the video is an important one but Emily as usual runs on to the next position without sufficiently elaborating everything important. It's so important in these endgames to emphasize that if White's pawn reaches the seventh rank without checking then White wins but if White's pawn gets to the seventh with check it's a draw. This cannot be over emphasized! So the position at 9:08 of the video she should address e.g., how White wins it if White moves first after e.g. 1.Kf5 Kg8 (1...Kf8 loses to 2.Kf6 Ke7 3.e6 Kd7 4.Kf7 etc.) 2.Kg6 but not 2.Ke5?? Ke8 3.Kd6 Kd8 with a draw due to e.g. 4.e6+ Ke8 5.Ke6 Stalemate) 2...Kf8 3.Kf6 Ke8 4.e7 Kd7 5.Kf7 winning easily.

[@OutdoorsWithChad]

She's 1000 elo... she can't elaborate because she barely understands these concepts as it is.

[@Steveross2851]

@@OutdoorsWithChad oh come on her understanding of chess while still at the low end of the intermediate tournament chess players spectrum is much better than 1000, which would make her a novice level player. She's made rapid improvement in her understanding in just a few months. Sadly I think the main reason she doesn't elaborate more (easy enough for almost anyone to do with Stockfish) is that she is convinced most of her viewers aren't interested in learning and just want to look at her. In a world as shallow as this one if that's what she thinks she may well be correct on that point. That's too bad because the positions in her videos are actually worthwhile and even some players at the upper end of the intermediate level spectrum can learn a few things from them (despite her lack of sufficient elaboration).

[@OutdoorsWithChad]

@Steveross2851 I disagree, I watched some of her games on twitch, she's like a deer in headlights, (as most 1000s are), with very little understanding of her positions. It's easy to appear knowledgeable and confident with a rehearsed script and puzzles you've already seen. I would expect she's improving rapidly though, because she mentioned she has a coach. But she's still playing make-believe with this channel. A 1000 should not pretend they can teacher. I would say the same even for a 1400 or 1500.

[@Steveross2851]

​@@OutdoorsWithChad KZbinrs like Emily should be taken with a grain of salt, sure. But since she's evidently rapidly improving (as are her videos) you shouldn't assume she's still 1000 or so strength unless the games you saw her play on Twitch were played within the last two months (which I doubt). Especially now with today's high quality Internet content and Stockfish it's possible for almost anyone to reach 1400 strength or close very quickly (within months of starting to play). If she's diligent she doesn't have to be very talented to reach 1600 within a year of learning how the pieces move. And if she is talented (unlikely but possible) she can make Master within 3 years of starting to play, something that would have been impossible before the Internet.

[@Forkionn]

Thanks for the video.

[@Lhotta]

Super helpful! Thanks Emily!

[@brylevelarde8226]

Excellent tutorial!

[@torstenbecker1942]

Thank you, that was very instructive for me!

[@tomtoss2463]

Awesome! I never read this in any chess book. This is new to me. Thank you.

[@BMWE-hm7uz]

Its literally page one of every endgame book bro

[@tomtoss2463]

@@BMWE-hm7uz LOL I must have the wrong endgame book!

[@BMWE-hm7uz]

@tomtoss2463 silmans endgame course, think its after the overkill mate thing thats almost like a preface to the book (no point teaching how to win a king and pawn endgame if you cant mate with the queen) 100 endgames you must know has it, Dvoretskys endgame manual even has it briefly but doesn't go into much detail. There's 100s of videos on it KZbin. It's like the first theoretical thing you should learn. But some reason, most people get lost in learning openings instead of nailing the basics 🤷‍♂️ There's a free site, chess endgame trainer, has the icon as a rook on a blue background. Different positions to go on to win, has pawn, 2 pawns, rook, queen, bishop, all of them. Honestly shouldn't take more than a few minutes to solve all 50 king and 1 pawn endgames. So nail that and move on

[@fabiotellez6192]

This is awesome. Thank you very much.

[@your_average_joe5781]

Chess is awesome ! ✅

[@innopva9973]

thank you!

[@joeandjasonandlydia8374]

amazing

[@itsandrechess]

Thank you!!!!

[@RaptureReady2025]

Great! ❤

[@curtisl2000]

super helpful

[@bigjohnson3381]

What's your ELO ?

[@DonMofet]

QUEEN *.*

[@jakobesken731]

nice!

[@JimThomasOutdoors]

Was it the movie "Queens Gambit" that got you interested in chess?

[@infiniterer287]

😂 that's not a movie

[@TWalker05]

@@infiniterer287tv show, close enough

[@NickMaovich]

a bit smoother transitions between cuts won't hurt good video tho

[@niravapurv4578]

10:23 Doesn't white king go wrong way here? Kg3 seems wrong. With Ke3 white has direct distant opposition and white wins no matter if king or rook takes in that puzzle?? Ah sry ofc black has Kf7.. taking the pawns oppositon so that the white king cant. Then its still a draw... nice puzzle.

[@juandelacruz46]

Hi Emily.

[@t.zak.9226]

I think you're going to get a lot of subscribers because you're a pretty woman and I hope that people watch your videos for the content and not for your looks.

[@humbertokatoch]

[@chessmaster-f1r]

This is too embarrassing for me, im 2400 in fast chess controls and dont even know these by Heart, had to think for a while 😅😅😮

[@psicotower]

[@bintube5269]

Hello

[@footy-club]

haha @ 0:58 minutes

[@MyDadsRulesChessTraining]

Wow! This is a great idea! Let's have a beginner "teach" other beginners endgame platitudes...err, umm "skills". Sheep are here, to be fleeced. Honesty is the BEST policy. BEWARE of the chess pretenders who read a script. They pretend to teach & sheep pretend to learn. What are they trying to hide? Their own weakness. If you want to WIN, for REAL (like I do) then talk to me...for FREE. I deliver REAL results...unlike the chess pretenders! Good luck! P.S. Who wrote this awful script?

[@potatobanana197]

Dude you're good at chess but your content sucks and your results show that. I hope your piss poor character continues to stymie your progress on KZbin.

[@Skinnyriver]

Ha ha you have 29 subscribers 😂

[@MyDadsRulesChessTraining]

@@Skinnyriver I'd rather be a genius with a NEW account than an idiot...like you. LOL

[@MyDadsRulesChessTraining]

@@potatobanana197 Your jealousy is so palpable, because you are a sheep to be fleeced & cannot see it. Thank you!

[@Skinnyriver]

@ ha ha good one, but you are more like a jerk and your content sucks. You started all this with your rude ass comments on people’s vids trying to get views

[@trentvlak]

I listen to Magnus, not you.

[@GregTurismo]

I see a lot of mean comments on your videos. Ignore the haters, keep up what you’re doing! ♟️

[@MyDadsRulesChessTraining]

I know that I always take advice form 800 rated beginners, like you! Oh, wait. I NEVER do that & that's why I win...a lot of games! Bwah-Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha!

[@GregTurismo]

@ 800 rated players can still give legit advice. Only players with egos stunt their ability to improve.

[@MyDadsRulesChessTraining]

@@GregTurismo Best of luck!

[@AngeloKhumalo-n3z]

​@@MyDadsRulesChessTrainingAre you 14? What going on where are you parents

[@infiniterer287]

​@@MyDadsRulesChessTraining based on your name and comments you need to go to bed kid 😂