Endings to Know: More Rook Endings-Part 2
Today i'll be continuing rook endings with an outside passed pawn, this time covering some examples with the defenders rook behind the pawn. An important thing to know about these endings is a passsed rook pawn combined with a knight (or rook) pawn on the other side do not win (other pawns do because they force the king to leave g7/h7 allowing queening tactics).
Here's an instructive example of this ending playing out:
The defense is more complicated when the kingside pawns are blocked off (so black cannot create a passed pawn as easily)