Improve your rook endings!

I find it interesting to see so many of my opponent dropping 1/2 and full points in rook endings over and over again. (I just surprised myself with a 3/0/0 65 moves, 8 acpl (!) rook ending game.)

Let's do something about your rook ending knowledge,
and work on your feel/intuition for this often occuring endgame ?

10 tips to quickly improve your rook endings - video :
lichess.org/video/813QD5vW5-4

Here some of my old blog posts, where I went through (the old master of rook and pawn endgames) Akiba Rubinstein rook endgames :
www.chess.com/blog/achja/rubinstein-rooks---part-i
www.chess.com/blog/achja/rubinstein-rooks---part-2
www.chess.com/blog/achja/rubinstein-rooks---part-3
www.chess.com/blog/achja/rubinstein-rooks---part-4

A Korchnoi rook ending game, annotated by me (Korchnoi was great with rook endings, and wrote a massive book about it) :
www.chess.com/blog/achja/korchnoi-rook-endings---part-1

A National Master article about rook endings that every tourney player should know :
www.chess.com/blog/CraiggoryC/rook-endings-that-every-tournament-player-should-know

A few blog posts on rook endings, with annotated games :
www.chess.com/blog/achja/the-art-of-rook-endings
www.chess.com/blog/achja/no-draw-rook-ending

My rook ending game of today :

Thanks for sharing, @achja

Thanks as always @achja - those look like some good resources.

Here's some more that a friend of mine made a few years back:
http://streathambrixtonchess.blogspot.co.uk/2006/10/rook-and-pawn-index.html

Test yourself by spotting mistakes in rook and pawn endings:

tailuge.github.io/chess-o-tron/html/blunder-bomb.html?p=Rr

I find it near impossible, I'll read your articles and try again.

@tailuge #4 Nice resource, and pretty tricky! Definitely had to switch my brain on to start getting somewhere on these - got 3 out of the first 10 then 7 out of the next 10.

52. ...Qc6+! 53. Kb8 Kd6 and white can't queen because he will be checkmated in 1. His longest defense involves under promoting to a knight, which is still mated a few moves later. Game over about 15 moves sooner. :D Maybe take a new look at QvP endings also.

Also.. neat puzzle: find mate in 2 from move 54, black to move.

@DrHack #6
I'm too old, too slow for time trouble queen endings like that :)

I played another purfect rook ending game today. Here are my thoughts in a study. Hope it is useful for beginning rookies :)
(5 0 game, 1/0/0, 14 acpl)

Thank you very much achja for posting as a study. Perhaps you could compile several rook endgames into one study? I found your example quite useful, but I'm sure there are many more from pro games you could include and annotate to make a very nice study.

@tailuge - That resource is amazing. Definitely going to be using that to study the endgames better.

@NoseKnowsAll #9
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll keep that idea in mind and see what I can do.