Chess Endgame Training

jlomo

About this game

Practice a variety of well organized endgames. From the most elementary to the most complex, you can practice until you master all the engame types.
The application organizes the positions in basics (queen, a rook, two rooks), pawns, bishops, knights, rooks and queen. For each type it provides multiple positions to practice.
Do you resist the endings with two bishops, or pawns ...? Now you can practice those endings that are more difficult to master them all forever.
It includes 3384 positions organized into 8 categories and 129 subcategories, so you can easily find the type of endgame you want to practice.

Play against the syzygy tablebases or against the stockfish engine - when there are more than 7 pieces.

The application records your personal record in each position. It also allows you to solve each position automatically and review the movements once completed.

It includes challenges of mate and also of draw, for both white and black.

Save configurations and progress to avoid losing them (to Google Drive).

When reaching a trivial position, it doesn't force you to solve it manually (it prompts you to resolve those last moves automatically without penalizing you for it).

Updated to Stockfish 16 NNUE.

Parameterize Stockfish by depth and time.

Better use of Syzygy/Stockfish.

List of moves: allows you to select a move and continue another line from there.

Manual mode: to move opponent's pieces to explore lines not suggested by syzygy or Stockfish: "what if...?"

Uses the chessground board which allows you to draw circles and arrows.

Board image capture.

Copy FEN and PGN to clipboard.

Button to open position analysis on Lichess.

Ratings and reviews

Covers every endgame you will need to know and pits you against a computer. Has manual mode if you want to see why certain moves don't work. Tells you immediately if you made a wrong move and has the ability for you to take it back to try again or use the hint to see what was missed. Very useful for all levels. A+

Best endgame app I've seen. A couple suggestions: 1. Allow players to restart even if they mated, lost, or stalemated. Currently only allows seeing the moves. Have to leave and come back to restart. 2. Allow the user to see the number of moves for a perfect game the whole time. Ideally through a toggle. As it is now, you can only see the number of moves for a perfect game by making a perfect first move and then you only see the number for a perfect continuation. Hard to keep track of if wrong.

The puzzles should really be ordered by difficulty for each category. Like the very first puzzle in 2 pawns vs 2 pawns had me there for minutes on end. You promote first but then they can just dance around their pawn. You want to bring your king when you have a free move but you actually have to move it the opposite way, because they can stalemate if you block their pawn. That level of planning is just unrealistic at normal elo ratings so why is it the very first puzzle?