Extra passed pawn in the rook endgame

Extra passed pawn in the rook endgame

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Yesterday after the finish of the Grandmaster tourney, where I lost 5 games in the time trouble I decided to follow this plan:

Study tactics 2 hours a day to improve the speed and the calculation skills.

Play the Titled Tuesday on Tuesday and play 1-2 blitz games daily and analyze them.

I played one game yesterday against International Master Simon Ansell from the United Kingdom. He played the London system against the Slav and played next c4 which I accepted. In the middlegame he got counterplay for the pawn and the position was equal. We got into a rook endgame with an extra pawn, but the defender rook behind. It was importan to cut off the attacker King to keep the draw:

I  analyzed this game on this video:

I updated my webpage and added a visualization test. You can check it here: http://atillaturzo.com/ 

If you would like to improve, please check the article about my coaching philosophy and methods in this article:


You can email me about lessons at attilaturzo@gmail.com
Have great games!

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I use the Chessmood opening courses:

1.e4 with white

Accelerated dragon with black

Benko-gambit with black