Endgame Mastery from the World's Elite: GM Dejan Bojkov Analyzes the 2025 World Cup
The 2025 Chess World Cup delivered exceptional opening novelties and tactical brilliance—but as always, it was endgame technique that separated the contenders from the champions. GM Dejan Bojkov has distilled the tournament's most instructive conclusions into a comprehensive course, capturing the precise calculations, subtle maneuvers, and critical principles that decided games at the highest level. This isn't a collection of theoretical curiosities; it's a practical masterclass drawn directly from elite competition, where every inaccuracy carries consequences and technique becomes the deciding factor.
What Makes This Course Unique
Bojkov's selection focuses on real-game positions from the World Cup's decisive moments, organized into three thematic chapters that mirror the structure of practical play. Heavy Pieces Endgames examines the double-edged territory of rook and queen endings, where the margin between victory and disaster remains razor-thin. Endgames With One Pair of Pieces On The Board demonstrates how technique becomes crucial when positions simplify, covering rook endgames and minor piece endings. Endgames With More Pieces On The Board tackles complex scenarios where strategic understanding and tactical precision must work in harmony—sometimes even positions that can resemble middlegames with reduced material.
The course provides 15 instructive endgames analyzed in detail, supplemented by 10 test positions that challenge you to apply the patterns and techniques demonstrated throughout. Video instruction accompanies the analysis, and multilingual PGN availability ensures accessibility in English, German, French, Spanish, and Greek.
GM Bojkov's recent work includes Typical Structures with Isolated Pawns, where he explored middlegame planning around structural themes. Here, he applies the same clarity and precision to endgame positions, revealing how the world's strongest players convert advantages and defend difficult positions when technique matters most.