Bishop Endgame Chess Puzzles

About bishop endgame puzzles

Bishop endgames require a deep understanding of colour complexes and pawn structure. These puzzles cover key themes including opposite-coloured bishops — one of chess's most reliable drawing resources — same-coloured bishop battles, and the deadly combination of bishop versus knight in open or closed positions. Practising bishop endgame puzzles trains you to evaluate whether an endgame is won, drawn, or lost, and how to manoeuvre your bishop to its most active diagonal. These skills become decisive in the final stages of competitive games where a single mistake in bishop technique can cost the win or allow an unexpected save.

How to train bishop endgame

Positions from this phase of the game repeat constantly, so the aim is recognition rather than raw calculation. Work slowly at first and name what you see — which side is better, which piece is loose, what the immediate threat is — before you look for a move.

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.