How to draw a rook pawn endgame when you're 1 pawn down?

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I just tried to group rook endgame with possible KRPR v KRP endgames where which positions would likely end up.

I wrote both hxg4 is  draw, but difficult ( my personal feeling), without doing hxg4 should also be a draw,

 

I am expecting this position even if I lose " h" pawn, I am too concern about white player having connected "h" and "g" pawns.

If there is no connected pawn, and even if I lose "h" pawn, I already practiced that position, I know it is draw, I know how to draw.

 

If I take hxg4, I have concern about leaving this pattern,

this is also objective draw, but i had bad experience (difficulty in getting draw ) while training against table base.

But with the connected pawn, if black doesnt have precise play, one connected pawn can advance and piss me off like that. This is lost.

So, I still believe both hxg4 or leaving alone should be draw, but I am choosing the position I am familiar to defend as draw.

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drmrboss schreef:

I just tried to group rook endgame with possible KRPR v KRP endgames where which positions would likely end up.

 

I wrote both hxg4 is  draw, but difficult ( my personal feeling), without doing hxg4 should also be a draw,

 

I am expecting this position even if I lose " h" pawn, I am too concern about white player having connected "h" and "g" pawns.

If there is no connected pawn, and even if I lose "h" pawn, I already practiced that position, I know it is draw, I know how to draw.

 

 

If I take hxg4, I have concern about leaving this pattern,

this is also objective draw, but i had bad experience (difficulty in getting draw ) while training against table base.

 

But with the connected pawn, if black doesnt have precise play, one connected pawn can advance and piss me off like that. This is lost.

 

So, I still believe both hxg4 or leaving alone should be draw, but I am choosing the position I am familiar to defend as draw.

The issue is that you have to get the rooks in the position you like. Therefore you can't apply it to every position. What if the starting position is something like this: