A Free Lesson On Smashing
Fortresses In Rook Endgames
If you’ve been playing chess for a while now, then you probably have been on both sides of this match-up — the “rook and pawn” versus “bishop and pawn” endgame.
The bad news:
Even top-tier grandmasters misplay this highly practical endgame, because of potential fortresses the defender can reach.
The good news, however:
You can learn the typical techniques for winning or holding this endgame — and
edge out the competition.
GM Efstratios Grivas and
GM Ivan Sokolov will show you how.
Both grandmasters are FIDE senior trainers, with thousands of hours of coaching experience. And in this mini-course, the duo channels their wealth of knowledge to help…
Level Up Your Precision and
Success Rate in the Endgame
Inside this mini-course, you’ll join two world champions —
Veselin Topalov (2005 FIDE World Champion) and
Elisabeth Paehtz (2005 World Junior Champion) — explore the subtleties of the “rook and pawn” vs “bishop and pawn” endgame.
You’ll learn about:
✅ Prioritizing targets… so you can maneuver the king towards the weakest spot in the enemy camp.
✅ Changing the pawn structure to your favor. From here, your breakthrough is inevitable. But mistime this shift, and you’d have to agree to a draw.
✅ Guretsky Cornitz method… which combines mating threats with king shuffles to force your pawn’s promotion.
✅ The ideal fortress setup. Plus the lines and squares you must control to reach this impregnable defensive formation.
And more.
Everything is packed into
17 MoveTrainer variations and
32 minutes of video. So you can study the techniques inside, and put them to work the same day.
If you want to gain the upper hand by mastering rook endgames, then there’s a lot of other piece configurations and setups to cover.
But don’t worry. You’ll find them inside the full version,
Endgame Expertise: Rook Endgames.
It’s a strategic and technical playbook which examines nearly every endgame scenario involving rooks. So that you’d know exactly
what you must do, and
when to do it to clinch the full point.
For now, enjoy this freebie!
If you’re enjoying this free sample, then you’ll love the full course by GM Efstratios Grivas and GM Ivan Sokolov, Endgame Expertise: Rook Endgames
