Is it not about rook endgames?
Rook endgames for beginners
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Starting Out: Rook Endgames
by Chris Ward
Sep 17, 2024
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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
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.