




Rook and pawn endings are of immense practical importance to the competitive chess player. This book is a player's guide to rook endings.

Rook endgames are the most basic endgames in chess. They come up all the time. I cannot begin to tell you how many times they have come up in my own tournament games. The most important endgame to learn is rook and pawn against rook where your king is in front of the...