10 tips to play better in Rook Endgame

Do you find Rook Endgames annoying? Do you feel you don’t understand what you should do or how you should play in these endings? In this post, Avetik Grigoryan is suggesting 10 tips/ideas that could be helpful to play better in Rook Endgames. It has already been said that these positions appear very often in chess games, so it's really important to be clear with this thematic.

List of the 10 tips:

• Rooks should go behind passed pawns

• Cut off the enemy King

• Don't forget the 7th Rank

• Avoid passive Rooks

• Activate your King

• Stay focused with material down

• Study Lucena’s Bridge basic position

• Study Philidor basic position

• Careful with weak pawns

• Careful, Rooks can get crazy!