My First Endgame Manual – Vol. 1 MoveTrainer® Endgame/Tactics course by GM Swapnil Dhopade

Improve Your Results Dramatically by Mastering the Fundamental Endgames

Practice all the openings, tactics, and strategy you want – they’re useless if you can’t convert your advantage into a win. And this course will show you how.

My First Endgame Manual – Vol. 1 teaches you the basic winning endgames every player must know – from reducing the opponent’s army to an indefensible squad…to checkmating the enemy king with nothing but a single rook.

These endgames are so fundamental because they pave the way for all endgames ahead, and teach you checkmating techniques you can use in the opening and middlegame, too. The best part is: they also have an outsized impact on your overall results – so studying them pays off quickly.

If learning endgames sounds daunting, don’t worry – you’ll learn them in a systematic and easy way, making them second nature to you. So when the time comes to deliver the final blow in your own games, you’ll be ready.

Specifically, you’ll learn:

♟️Fundamental ‘lone king’ checkmates. If your opponent has only a king left, all you need is a single rook to checkmate them! Learn the rook vs. king checkmate, queen vs. king checkmate, and two rooks checkmate. Easy-to-learn tricks like the cage technique and staircase technique make them easy to remember in real games.

♟️Other common endgame checkmates. Learn the “rook on the 7th” checkmate, back-rank checkmate, hook mate and more. The best part is…these very same techniques can be used in the opening and middlegame too!

♟️Capturing your opponent’s pieces. In most cases, you’re going to have to clear out some ‘bodyguards’ on the way to the enemy king. With this course, you’ll practice spotting those loose pieces and picking them up so you can clear the way for checkmate.

You’ll also get an entire test chapter which quizzes you on all the techniques you learned through the other four chapters, making sure you can apply them in practical scenarios.

A Premier Chess Coach Makes the Moves Unforgettable

Grandmaster Swapnil Dhopade is your instructor. Now a premier chess coach and the head of a prestigious chess academy in India, GM Dhopade still knows the struggle beginner players go through. That’s because he taught himself the game of chess – and has found all the best methods to streamline your learning and ingrain these fundamentals into your brain.

His thorough but relatable teaching style has made him a fan-favorite on Chessable – earning him star-studded reviews on each of his courses. He brings the same beginner-friendly approach to this course.