Bishop Endgame Chess Puzzles
Free bishop endgame chess puzzles. Master the subtleties of same-color bishops, opposite-color bishops, and converting bishop advantages. Free to practise, graded easy to hard, no login required.
About bishop endgame puzzles
Bishop endgames turn on one question: are the bishops on the same colour or opposite colours? Opposite-coloured bishops are the most reliable drawing resource in chess, and knowing this saves half-points from positions that look lost. Same-coloured bishop endings, by contrast, are often decided by which side can create a passed pawn on the squares their bishop controls. These puzzles train you to evaluate the colour complex first and calculate second, and to recognise the good-bishop-versus-bad-bishop imbalance that decides so many otherwise equal positions.
How to train bishop endgame
A bishop endgame is a shape, not a sequence. Once you can spot the shape you will find the move in seconds instead of calculating from scratch, so train for recognition speed: glance, name the pattern, then verify.
Questions
How many bishop endgame puzzles are there?
Enough that you will not repeat them — this set is drawn from a library of over 1,000,000 puzzles taken from real games, graded from easy to hard.
What level is this suitable for?
Children from about age 5 upward, once they know how the pieces move, through to rated tournament players. Start on the easy set and move up when you are solving most of them at a glance.