00:00chances of activating the king, even sacrificing some pawns and reaching out.
00:06But the ideal, of course, will be to put rook behind your pawn.
00:10And that's, for instance, that would be a position similar to what's happened in the last game of a famous match in 1927, Alohi Kavaplanka.
00:21Having your rook behind your passed pawn guarantees that this pawn can move on.
00:27And if black blocks this pawn, then their rook is paralyzed.
00:32And then you seem to bring the king.
00:34So it's a general rule, but it's easy to explain.
00:40Because you just have to make sure that your pieces are most active.
00:44And having your rook, if you are on the weak side, on the defensive side, behind the pawn, enemies pass pawn, always helps.
00:53Same rule works for multiple pawns endgames.
00:57You have passed pawns, protected pawns, whatever.
01:01So every time you should remember that active rook in the endgame offers you a good opportunity, a good chance to either save the game or, if you are on the strong side, to win the game.
01:14There's an important modification of the pawns endgames, you may call it, a queen versus pawn.
01:26Sometimes it happens.
01:27You promote first, but then there's one pawn on the second rank or the seventh rank.
01:32And it's important to remember that there are certain rules.
01:36So if we have a queen somewhere, our king is somewhere, and black has a king and a pawn.
