Bishop endgame puzzles
84 free bishop endgame puzzles from real games, rated 877 to 2473. Solve them on the board below; your accuracy feeds your weakness map.
What is a bishop endgame?
Bishop endgames revolve around square colours. Pawns on the bishop's colour can be attacked; pawns on the other colour are safe from it.
Tactics here are about deflecting the bishop from its diagonal or creating two passed pawns it can't stop.
Common mistake
Putting your pawns on the same colour as the enemy bishop.
How to spot it
Which colour squares does the enemy bishop control? Push on the other colour.
Two passed pawns far apart usually beat a lone bishop.
Deflect the bishop from the diagonal guarding the promotion square.
Related themes
- PromotionTurn a pawn into a queen.
- UnderpromotionWhen a knight beats a queen.
- En passantThe capture most players forget.
- Rook endgameThe most common endgame in chess.
- Pawn endgameOpposition, breakthroughs and races.
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Puzzles: Lichess puzzle database (CC0), filtered for popularity and play count. See how Weakspot works.