Winter Clinic: Rook Endgames

Endgame Club Winter Clinic!  Intense training group for adults and ambitious juniors.  This winter – rook endgames, R vs R and R + M vs R + M.  Weekly homework; rated tournaments.  Make new friends!

http://www.centralohiochess.com/Winter-Clinic.html

Hmm, R vs R shouldn´t take long to cover; what´s M?

Hey, wasted_youth!  ... the "M" is a short way of saying "minor piece."  So that's actually four types of endgames, if you like:

R + N vs R + B

R + N vs R + N

R + B vs R + B (same)

R + B vs R + B (opposite)

Thanks for the question!  :)

ps  nice shark!  

Aha ok, thanks!

Do the endings include pawns? Without, they'd be pretty much drawn wouldn't they, unless one side makes a major blunder?

frentz wrote:

Endgame Club Winter Clinic!  Intense training group for adults and ambitious juniors.  This winter – rook endgames, R vs R and R + M vs R + M.  Weekly homework; rated tournaments.  Make new friends!

http://www.centralohiochess.com/Winter-Clinic.html

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Pay special attention to the Fischer endgame technique {R + B + p(s) vs R + N + p(s)}. The key to the endgame technique is that the B can gain or lose a tempo. The N CANNOT do either. This is critical in Zugswang positions.

wasted_youth -- yup, pawns. just a short way of writing it I suppose.  And actually, so then, a variety of things can happen with the pawns ... one classification would be (a) pawns on one side of the board only, (b) pawns on both sides of the board.

Yaroslavl:  Thanks for the tip!  Yes that is a valuable lesson, and also, people will enjoy the connection to Fischer.  Great suggestion!