In this article, we will examine endings in which White’s pawn has not yet moved past the 4th rank, but Black’s king is cut off from the pawn (and is thus unable to move over and blockade the pawn) on the long side (thus interfering with any attempts from Black to check from the side)….
Category: The Endgame
One of the eternal questions that practical players face is how to remember more than a couple of theoretical endings. Taking rook and pawn endings as an example, knowledge of the simplest positions such as Philidor’s defence in rook and pawn against rook… Philidor’s position 1…Rb6 2.d6 Rb1 3.Ke6 Re1+ …or…
While writing some recent blog articles on rook and pawn endgames, I made use of a couple of very useful endgame tools. They are probably well-known to everyone, but just in case… Online 6-man Nalimov Tablebases Enter any 6-man endgame – for example K,R & P vs K,R & P – and see…
Just a few days ago, I had a Facebook chat with the Dutch IM Stefan Kuipers about the ending Arkell-Emms that is covered in Chess for Life. I noticed the game originally due to the creative way that Keith transposed into a Rook and pawn ending with 4 vs 3 on the same side. …
During our interview with Terry Chapman for “Chess for Life”, Terry mentioned one of the most memorable moves of his career played in a rook ending during his victory over the Russian Grandmaster Alexander Cherniaev. We didn’t have the space to include the game in the book, so we published it instead in a video…