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Rook vs Pawn Endgames: 8 Must-Know Concepts

Also really frustrating are
knight endgames, because of all the forks and checks
queen endgames, because of the constant threat of a skewer/perpetual
Great blog by the way!
Thanks for this one, it was amazing.
can you explain similarly for rook and pawn vs rook and pawn endgames and some tricks to convert a drawn position ?
well i plan to read it, but got stuck on the cat playing rather respectfully of the gravity and upward pawn most stable 3D orientation. Cats are good statisticians (look at them sampling their environments with all rotating sensors they have).

they may be able to try to repeat motions with their toys that they see repeatedly happening.... from their humans...

the pawn does seem to be doing a legal motion (maybe diagonal, but i would not blame the cat...).
Shouldering is Like a FAT king that intrudes the space of the other king & takes too much space..
@MohammedElasha said in #6:
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I thought it could also be a flexible shape balloon with given volume being pushed through various constraints of a vascular system, but then someone mentioned a bad breath analogy (for the restricting side, or actually both sides).

so my first go to analogy was a bit contorted, i don't know why it came to me first.. the bad breath, or space cloud entourage (empty squares, in abstract of other things on board) following the king (in old times they would rarely take baths, also, privilege of some kind, or just no running water), seems simpler and more evocative.
> You’ll push your pawn, they’ll push theirs.

Good that you separate very well the difficult points that combine factors.

one can learn pawn majorities, but what if both sides have some going for them.. (and other possibly conflicting or overlapping things).

I like the chessboard background too. it soothes the mind eye.

What is the difference between escorting and shouldering?