Rook and pawn endings are of immense practical importance to the competitive chess player. They occur
more often than any other kind of endgame and as a consequence it is vital to know exactly how to
convert an advantage into a win, or how to defend a difficult position. This comprehensive and authorative
volume contains everything you need to know about rook endings. It begins with a thorough analysis of the
fundamental winning and drawing positions which one side has an extra pawn, and progresses to more complex
positions where each side has pawns. The penultimate chapter in which positions with many pawns are
considered, is particularly valuable, since many books on the endgame treat these positions lightly, if at
all. If you don't play this early phase of the ending well, you may never reach one of the fundamental
positions!

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