Hi Everyone welcome to my YouTube
Channel, Today, we are going to study
about Rook Ending,  we call it cutting off
back- rank pawn & LUCENA Rook Ending.
Cutting off back-rank pawn is a pawn
where it can get loose without
protection by a Rook cutting off
Technique.  The LUCENA Rook Ending is one of
the most famous and important positions
in chess endgame theories. This Endgame
Theory is a process by which it cuts off the
opponent's king and the Rook  to enable to promote a pawn. Let us see these
2 diagrams, the first one as it shows White has a piece at Rb3 and the King is
located at f8 while the Black side has
King at f6 and pawn at f4.  Back is
trying to promote the pawn to f1 but
with this guarding of the Rook at b3 but
it's white move,  what shall white do to
be able to prevent the pawn from
promoting.  We cannot use blocking
technique...
because King just approaches it and it
gets closer to the goal to promote as
you can see it going closer
to the Rook and it helps much for the
Black side about the blocking technique
which is not effective on this area or
scene now it's a draw.  If we go back to
the original position, the only way to
win this position is by using the
cutting of back-rank pawn which is
placing the Rook at b5.  As  you can see we cut off the King from passing by that
line, so pawn has its own world now if he wants
to push the pawn,  so let's see if pawn
pushes,  Rb3 wins and King,
or  King's pawn is cut loose if it
pushes check and it's free pawn now  to
be capture.  let's go back again
after this move if King decides to go
sideways King just opposes it
if King goes to d6 it's not possible
because there is move Rf5 and the
pawn is loosed and it's free. King has to
go back to its original position by
Kf6. So Kd7, Kg6, 
Ke6 now only moves to go down or
Kh6 here,  now Rook is coming to attack
the pawn.  This is easy technique, as often
as many times also, it happens during
Rook ending. I love rock ending
because I believe 60% is Rook ending because
that's the piece that all always comes
left after the middle game.  Now we're
going to the next one, we're going to
study about the LUCENA VARIATION, if
you can see this Diagram, there's a pawn
c6 and a king at c7 supported by the Rook
at c1, there's another Rook at
g2 and King at  g7,  so the way to do
is to cut off the King first by checking
it, if the King decides to go up, we have
to push the pawn by placing the King 
at d2,  Rook check,  Kc8,  Rook
attacking the pawn,  push,  now with the
Rook now decides just to move forward
just one square,  Rook (white) needs to do his job about LUCENA technique, that's the
LUCENA Technique if the King approaches the Rook,  now the Rook goes to e8 square
to protect the pawn  from promoting to c8
because sooner King will side step to
have a way for the pawn to promote so
just in case Rook goes here,  Kb7,  check
Ka6,  check,  Kb5,  check and 
Ka4 wins. This is another way of winning
so that if we go back to this position
if this king wants just to go down here
same pattern but we just move the King
here, check..
Kc6,  check,  then,  Kd6 if
it checks, this is a bad mood why we have
this Kf5 move, if it checks again it
covers that check,
then our pawn here at c7 will promote...
There's many ways to win but seems
like LUCENA is so effective that if
you don't know this basic theory you,
need to ask someone else like in the
Chess Club to teach you about this
endgame processes, so I hope you enjoy
this endgame and bring your chess board
and practice it with your friends or
with your friends in the Chess Club
Thank you so much for watching I hope
you enjoyed it and learned about it,  Thank
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