Rook Endgames Crash Course - Rook & Pawn Endings - Fundamentals of Rook Endgames - Tips and Tricks

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This video will cover some of the basic and fundamental aspects of rook endgames. Rook endings in chess are the most common type of endgame in chess, with about half of all chess endgames falling into the category of rook endgames. Learning the Philidor and Lucena positions will help you draw games when defending against a pawn, and win games when you have an extra pawn. Additionally we will talk about counting tempi, cutting off the king, attacking pawn weaknesses, and more. Beginner and intermediate players will benefit most from this rook endings crash course.

[orbitorbit]

This channel has become one of my favorites recently! ❤️

[polemopoleno]

You're great! I like that you poked fun at the "phillidor and lucena" positions :D

[dukesublime]

Thanks so much for your videos, I am new to chess, played roughly 80 / 90 games according to my stats lol.. I’m a huge fan of your content, it’s clear and concise not to forget massively informative.. Hope you are well. Thanks again

[mr.baymax]

This channel is underrated, keep up the great content Nelson!

[kaikulimu]

You have the best explanations and most practical tips in all the chess channels I have followed. Please continue to make good educational content and advance in your chess adventures!

[Closertotruth]

I’ve been watching chess videos for a year. I’m about 1500. I personally find your teaching technique the best I’ve seen online. Very glad I recently came upon it. Thanks for your help and keep them coming.

[wallstreetmonky]

this was a great tutorial. I was worried that it was just gonna be the lucena position and philidor position that ive seen covered a billion times, but these tips were really helpful!

[Hopefully]

At 20:58, in this position there are other moves that can win for white, Rf2 wins, and Re2 wins. I checked by playing against stockfish

[sak]

Thanks a lot, sir, for this video helped me to win an interschool chess tournament. I had 2 Queen vs Room + Pawn endings (Me being with the rooks) and this study helped me win both of them. Your channel is really informative. Great fan of yours.

[dorkman]

finally a good endgame video for beginners! most endgame videos for beginners are just like pawn and king vs king or checkmating with a rook this was very helpful thank you

[peterarbeiter]

When you said that Pihilidor and Lucena position are not so important, you got me hooked. A lot of endgame material starts with those two, because then you can just explain what thousands have explained before, instead of really explaining rook endgames. :-)

[CastroMKE]

This was so helpful man. I recently had 2 rooks and 4 vs 2 rooks and 2. The starting position was white pawns on a2, b3, g3, h2, king on g1, rooks on f2 and f6. black pawns a3, b7, king on a7, and rooks on e2 and e8. I was so confused on ow to proceed but now I know that the outside passed pawns just push up the board and queen and the rooks assist in the queening journey. Very helpful to a 1300 rated player.

[drrakeshmm]

Your all videos are very instructive!!! Very easy to understand and very good tips!!!

[gusTechnikPro]

Great video. This video deserves more views. You explain basic concepts so well instead of getting lost in minutia of some special rook ending where I need to calculate 7 moves ahead.

[splitstix]

Great video, I will try to incorporate this kind of stuff into my games

[gregmartin]

20:48 again, because the Black King is so far away white can win simply by Re1 followed by Ke7, no bridge required. However if Black's King was not cut off and was at d7, for example, then a proper Lucena bridge would have to be built

[prbprb]

At 20:10, white can actually win more easily by playing Re2 or Rf2, using an easier technique. To motivate the discussion better, the Black king should be placed on c7 or d7.

[goodlyboony]

Chess Vibes and Gotham Chess are the best teachers / chess channels

[gregmartin]

This was some excellent instruction, especially walking us through the first rook endgame. Thanks for making the video!

[joaomattosinho]

Thanks. You are great teacher. Best ever.