Rook Endings [Levenfish, Smyslov].pdf

THE TOURNAMENT PLAYER'S COLLETION

Rook Endings

Algebraic edition

Grigory Levenish & Vasily Smyslov

Traslated by Philip J. Booth

B.T. Batsford Ltd, London

First published in the USSR

English tanslation O B.T. Batfm·d Ltd, 1971

Alebraic dition 1989

ISBN 0 714 589 7

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A BATSFORD CHESS BOOK

Advor: R.D. Keene, OBE

Technical Eitor: Ian ingston

Contents

Pefae

Intrduction

The propertes of te rok

Kng and r o ok �. king and rook

2 Rook and pawn v. rook

Defeding king restrains the own's dtlnce

Pawn on 7th: ki n g s cut of

Pawn on 6th: kig is cut of

Pawn on 5th: king s cut of

Pawn on 4th. 3rd d 2d ranks: king is ut of;

defence by rontal attack

Rook's pawn

3 Rok and two pans v. rook

Connected paws

Diconnected aws

4 Rook and paw n v. rok nd awn

5 Moe awns

Rook and two paws v. rook and pawn

Rook nd rwo pawns v. rook ad two ans;

rok ad three pawns v. rook and two awm;

rok and t hree pawns v. rook and tree lwns

115

6 Contems

6 Numerous paws

135

Paws on one wing

135

Extra outside p.�sed pan

146

One pawn advantage and better postion

163

Material elity with positicmal dtage

171

lmificient m a te i a l adwmtage

181

Slight positional adantage

186

7 Conclusion

206

Index of Naes

21 5

Preface

God endgame t;hniq ue is esen

tial for any player who wishs to

attain the he i ghts of chss mas t ery .

It is only omparatively rarely that

gams are won in the middleg a me

and then only as a result of serious

mistakes on the part of the

opponent. ln a signiicantly

geater nu m ber of cases it is the

endgame which proves to be the

sene of a ierce strugle to realze

a small advantage built up in the

course of the opening and m i ddl e

game. The endgame ets the task

of converting this into a d;isive

advantage or, for the defene, the

task of rendering it inadquate.

The strongest mstes of the

past-Philidor. Steinitz, Chigorin,

asker, Rubinstein, Capablanca,

Al e khi n e .. -were all outs t an d ing

experts on the endgame.

The appraisal of a pos i tion is

one of the basic elements of any

chess game, d etermin in g as it des

th e strategy and the tactics to be

adopted . But how often , even with

strong players, the imortant

mome n t oftransition from middle

game to endgame pro,·es to be a

stumbling blck! W h et her queens

should e exchanged or whe t her

a sol u t i o n should e sought n

complications, whether a one

pawn advantage is suicie n t to

win in the rook e nd i ng that lies

ahead-these a re problems which

fq uen tl y arie in the coure of a

game, but which it is diicult for

any player who does not have an

adequate command o f endgam e

technique to solve. The attitude,

therefore, of certain high e r - graded

players that •if it oms to an

ending. home analysis wil see me

t hr o ugh' can be shown to e naive,

to say the least.

Any o rr ect methd of teac h i ng

chess also demands irst of all the

st u dy of sim p le p o s i tio n s with a

small n u mer of pis and pawns

on the oard. Studying endgames

acquaints the b eg i nn e r with t he

seciic p r ope r t i es of the p ices

and pawns and with the way they

i n te r ac t . The s tudy of endings

ought , therefore, to prede the

analysis of opening s and ompli

cated middlegame positions. Stat

istics culld from numerous tour

naments reveal that rook endings

comprise 0 per ent of aU

e ndg a ms , and it is for this reason

that a study of them is of great

practical value.

This work do es not provi de a

complete coure on rook endin;

such a ook would nd to e

thee times as long. We have

resticted ourselvs to ctamining

the most typial rook endings and

those that are most often met in

practice.

The ap p arent simplicity of rook

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