February 9, 2014 – IM/WGM Yelena Dembo's Chess Academy

Understanding a practical Rook endgame

By Yelena Dembo | February 9, 2014 - 06:58 |February 9, 2014 Exercises, Our Middlegame and Endgame Collection

As usual, it is very important to know and understand the basic endgames, but you cannot get to them if you don’t understand the practical ones 🙂 . This very interesting example is from our Rook endgame collection.

 [Event "?"]  [Site "?"]  [Date "2006.05.04"]  [Round "?"]  [White "R endgame"]  [Black "?"]  [Result "1-0"]  [Annotator "Dembo,Yelena"]  [SetUp "1"]  [FEN "8/r5k1/2p3p1/P1P2pP1/1K6/5R2/8/8 w - - 0 1"]  [PlyCount "23"]  [EventDate "2006.??.??"]   {The a5 pawn, which can be supported by White's pieces, is much more dangerous  than black's passed pawn. In addition, Black's passed pawn. In addition,  Black's passively placed pieces have no way of supporting his pawn. White wins  by an extremely instructive rook manoeuvre.} 1. Ra3  {(threatening 2. a6 and  3. Ka5)} Ra6 {(the pawn is blocked, but the black rook is now immobilized)} 2.  Rd3 Kf7 3. Rd6 $1 Kg7 4. Rd7+ Kg8 5. Ka4 $1 {Black's position has further  deteriorated, since the white rook has broken into it. By this move White  prepares the transfer of his rook to b6,} ({since the immediate} 5. Rb7 {could  have been met by} f4) 5... Kf8 6. Rb7 f4 (6... Kg8 7. Rb6 Ra8 8. Rxc6 Kg7 9. a6  f4 10. Rf6 $18) 7. Rb4 {White's mobile rook manages to get everywhere, and  easily copes with the opponent's passed pawn.} Ke7 8. Rxf4 Ke6 9. Rf6+ Kd5 10.  Kb4 Ra7 11. Rd6+ Ke5 12. Rxg6 $18 1-0

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