In a 10 min game, I run in that position after a boring rook endgame. There were about 2-3 min left for each of us (poor time management). I did not realized until now how the idea in the title (to hide the king behind opponent pawns) could become real in endgame.
In the diagram position, after that long endgame with many (justified) draw offers my opponent rejeted, I almost played the drawish Rg7 ? to get a faster draw by trading pawns : why keep laying that annoying game ? That's just Philidor's position with one more pawn for the defender... But I eventually saw "the" winning move (I suspect many moves win here, but all must have the same idea).
I can only recommend you to check all the lines if you are not familiar with rook endgames. You need to know about Philidor's position, why it's drawn - you can find it on wikipedia.
In a 10 min game, I run in that position after a boring rook endgame. There were about 2-3 min left for each of us (poor time management). I did not realized until now how the idea in the title (to hide the king behind opponent pawns) could become real in endgame.
In the diagram position, after that long endgame with many (justified) draw offers my opponent rejeted, I almost played the drawish Rg7 ? to get a faster draw by trading pawns : why keep laying that annoying game ? That's just Philidor's position with one more pawn for the defender... But I eventually saw "the" winning move (I suspect many moves win here, but all must have the same idea).
I can only recommend you to check all the lines if you are not familiar with rook endgames. You need to know about Philidor's position, why it's drawn - you can find it on wikipedia.