Mastering Essential Rook Endgames
Mastering Essential Rook Endgames is the eighth and final volume of the Modern Endgame Manual, the first FIDE-approved endgame manual, written by three of the world's leading experts — the FIDE Senior Trainers GM Mikhalchishin, GM Grivas and GM Balogh. This volume, by Grandmaster Adrian Mikhalchishin, closes the series by showing the most entertaining elements of rook and pawn endgames, along with many of the most important practical cases.Across its chapters you will work through rook against pawns, the classic rook endings with an extra passed pawn, isolated pawns, and the transition from the opening into rook endgames, as well as gems of master play such as the Korchnoi–Smyslov ending and the endgames of Botvinnik and Smyslov. To round out your study, the book includes more than one hundred of the most entertaining studies and one hundred rook ending tests to put your technique to the test.It is part of an eight-volume collection that spans the full range of endgames, from king and pawn endgames to the most complex and materially unbalanced ones. A work aimed at intermediate and advanced players who want to perfect their command of rook endgames.What you will find in this book:Rook against pawns and the classic rook endings with an extra passed flank or central pawn.Isolated pawns and the transition from the opening into rook endgames.Master endgames: Korchnoi–Smyslov, Botvinnik, and Smyslov.More than 100 studies and 100 rook ending tests to practice.