Pyramid of Endgames: Vol. 1 – Pawns & Minor Pieces + PGN Mar 20, 2026

Start with These 3 Base Layers
for Stronger Endgame Play

All prepared by a Women’s World Champion and an award-winning coach. They combine over 60 years of experience in pro-chess and top-level coaching. Today, they strip the exhausting parts of endgame study, and help you build a firm foundation for success.

Set aside for now the techniques that take a dozen pages just to explain.

In Pyramid of Endgames Volume 1, you dive into core lessons that make more complex endgames easier to learn… and your next games easier to win.

You start with pure pawn endings. They’re always a possible destination once the pieces come off. And they’re the cleanest way to convert your edge.

In pawn endgames, a small edge like
a more active king leads to mate!

Next, you dive into knight endgames. They teach you how to maneuver with precision and make every tempo count.

With knight endings, you grow better at
finding and calculating counter-intuitive
moves that get the job done

And for the 3rd layer, you explore bishop endgames.

You get better at timing sacrifices when you master these long-ranged pieces.

And when facing them? You get a good exercise in controlling squares, as well as stopping enemy plans.

By controlling the right diagonal and lining up
pawns the right way, winning becomes as
simple as getting your king to h5

Because of the skills they train, these 3 base layers can boost not just your endgames, but every area of your chess…

Especially with a guide like Grandmaster Antoaneta Stefanova bringing her know-how to this course.

She won major titles like the 2002 European Women’s Championship, the 2004 Women’s World Championship, and the 2012 Women’s World Rapid Championship.

She’s a universal player, but especially dangerous when the queens come off.

In Game 3 of the 2004 Women’s World Championship final, her active pieces canceled out the enemy extra pawn… claiming the crown with a commanding 2.5-0.5 score.

Then at the 2011 European Club Cup, she ground down a future World Champion from an equal-material rook-and-bishop ending.

Joining you in the analysis is GM Efstratios Grivas… one of the most decorated FIDE Senior Trainers.

He has coached the national teams of Turkey, Greece, Sri Lanka, and the UAE.

He’s also earned 3 of chess education’s top honors: FIDE’s Boleslavsky Medal, Euwe Medal, and the Razuvaev Medal.

Together, Stefanova and Grivas combine over 60 years of experience playing pro-chess and training future GMs.

And now, they’re channeling all that hard-won knowledge into a course. One built to make perhaps the hardest — and driest — phase of chess into something…