Is it not about rook endgames?
Rook endgames for beginners
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You can read endgame chess strategy by hellsten or shereshevsky. You can also see endgame videos on YouTube or see games of rook endgames with many pawns on board. In speedruns you may not understand their moves as they are playing fast time controls. You should also learn some basics about endgames like active king, how to convert material advantage and things like that. You should also read strategy books in general as endgame is positional rather than tactical. There are no chessable courses other than mastering endgame strategy but you should buy its book. There is a game of of botvinnik in which a rook is defending 3 pawns so whenever you can get an active rook you should.
Starting Out: Rook Endgames
by Chris Ward
"Rook Endgames" by IM John Bartholomew
Thank you very much for all your tips!
I will reach out for these books. I also found this Chessable course, which I already started: Basic Endgames
Luděk Pachman: Šachové koncovky v praxi
Hello, could anyone please recommend me a good chess book or Chessable course (or any other resource, e.g., YouTube series) about rook endgames for beginners? What I am looking for are some general principles and ideas, absolute basics how to play these endgames. The resources I studied on these endgames (e.g., Silman's book, which is otherwise great) usually teach some theoretical positions like Lucena or Philidor. This is great and I love it, I like studying this type of things, but honestly I do not encounter such positions in my games. Instead, I encounter positions with many pawns where my Rook suddenly gets passive or some disasters happen.
Or something like this happens; this is really a terrible example of how I lost a won game with an extra Bishop and I could not stop two connected passed pawns: Lost endgame
Of course when I see the computer analysis after the game and I see the logical 48...Rd6 (which simply covers d8 and attack c6, so the White is helpless and when he goes for my a-pawn, I can easily win both his pawns and then have an extra Bishop, while he has no counterplay), I understand it and it is clear. However, during the game it was not and I really felt too much pressure. And this is just one example of many.
Also, when I watch a good player against amateurs (for example, Eric Rosen's speedrun on YouTube), I can see how easily he dominates these kinds of positions, how his Rook is always active, always creating threats and his opponents crumble. This does not happen in my games and I am usually on the losing side.