The Path
Five worlds from 0 to 2000+. Short levels of hand-picked puzzles, 1–3 stars, XP, a daily streak and a boss at the end of every world.
More Dutch for Black: the Staunton Gambit, the Leningrad with ...c6 or ...Nc6, the Stonewall, the Classical with ...Qe8-h5, the London-style Bf4, the b3 setup and the Nc3 Bb4 line. 8 lines for Black: Staunton Gambit declined back, Leningrad ...c6 and ...e5, Leningrad ...Nc6-a5, Stonewall ...Bd6, Classical ...Qe8-h5, London-style Bf4, Against b3, Nc3 and Bb4.
Popularity rank #31 of 64 · Endgame Pro defence · against 1.d4
The f5 pawn controls e4. In the Stonewall, pawns on d5, e6 and f5 make e4 a permanent outpost but leave a hole on e5. In the Leningrad, ...d6 and ...e5 build a King's-Indian-like centre. In the Classical, Black stays flexible with ...d6 and ...e6.
Watch out: Early checks on h5, checks on the a2-g8 diagonal and sacrifices on e6 or g6 are the typical dangers. Do not leave the e8-h5 diagonal open while your king is still in the middle.
See the line. Feel the snap.
Endgame is a chess training game. Climb a puzzle path world by world, replay the 60 games every strong player knows, spar with bots on the clock, and let the engine turn your blunders into tomorrow's drills.
No sign-up. Your progress is saved on this device.
64 Stockfish-checked traps in three style packs. Spring each one, then learn to dodge it.
Five worlds from 0 to 2000+. Short levels of hand-picked puzzles, 1–3 stars, XP, a daily streak and a boss at the end of every world.
The Immortal, the Opera Game, Deep Blue, Kasparov's Immortal and ten landmarks from the modern world champion. Replay with an eval bar or play the winner's moves and get scored.
Thousands of real positions from the open Lichess database, served at your level, filtered by motif. Plus a daily puzzle.
Eight sparring partners with their own personalities, from "hangs everything" to full-strength engine. Bullet to rapid, or pass-and-play with a friend.
Every move gets a label — from Brilliant and Only move down to Blunder — plus accuracy for both sides, an estimated game rating and the key moments. Your own mistakes land in a drill queue. Import from Lichess or Chess.com.
Coach-inspired training paths by rating band, an opening repertoire trainer, a trap lab and board-vision speed drills.
Most games between club players are decided by a short tactic — a fork you didn't see, a pin you walked into, a back rank you forgot to air out. Endgame closes the loop: learn the pattern on the Path, use it against a bot, get graded, and drill the miss until it sticks.
Want to read up first? Short guides: forks, pins, back-rank mates.
Public games only. Everything is graded on your device by Stockfish.
Uses the public Lichess API and the Chess.com Published-Data API. Endgame is not affiliated with Lichess or Chess.com.
Endgame Pro
$6/month or $49/year at launch.
Everything on the free plan stays free. Pro adds the tools that turn practice into progress:
No payment is taken today. Join the list and we'll email you once when Pro opens, with an early-supporter price.
Privacy: for the waitlist we store only your email address, the date you signed up and a rough country code (on Cloudflare), solely to tell you about Pro. No tracking pixels, no selling or sharing, and you can ask us to delete it any time. Privacy Policy.