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Friday, March 26, 2010

Rook Endgames - Rook Behind Passed Pawns - Lesson 4

Rooks belong behind Passed Pawns
There, I'm even repeating it now so as to help you commit it to memory!
In the following example there is a very dangerous black pawn that is ready to promote. Having spent a lot of time with juniors I notice that they place a lot of comfort value in blocking passed pawns.

NOTE: The underlying theme is that rooks like to be active and they can do that best from behind passed pawns.

Lets move on to the next example.How to stop that pawn?


Now lets continue with the above example.
NOTE: A draw is better than a loss!

Bearing in mind this rather obvious remark, in fact White has numerous ways in which to avoid defeat.Explore it with the following example.


That's it for now.Stay tuned...there is much more to come!


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