Due to the shorter thinking time, endgame knowledge is more important than ever before. There is hardly any time left to derive knowledge independently. Either you know something or you don’t. Rook endings are by far the most important technical endgames. They occur three times as often as the number 2 “bishop versus knight”. The seminar consists of three parts:
1. Rook and pawn versus rook
This is the most important category of rook endgames. Every serious chess player should know the elementary positions and maneuvers. This section consists of 32 key positions that logically build on each other.
2. Rook versus pawn
This constellation can also be considered elementary. It often arises from an endgame R+P versus R+P after a rook had to be sacrificed for a pawn.
3. Complex rook endgames
Each side has a rook with two or more pawns on the board.
Aims and benefits of the seminar
1. Emphasizing recurring patterns, mechanics and principles in order to relieve the participant’s memory.
2. Providing the participant with a digital database with key positions and solutions so that the content can be repeated quickly and repeatedly.
3. Opening the mind to the logical beauty of this chess discipline in order to dispel the fear of technical endgames.