Philidor Position - Rook and Pawn Endgames

[@ottarornbergmann6947]

I like that you are focusing on your self now but still upload great videos

[@Shapiraification]

This definitely helped thanks. Even if its basic, you present it in an accessible and concise format. Keep up the great work!

[@HeY-xm2op]

I love where this is heading..

[@theinacircleoftheancientpu492]

Thanks, its actually really difficult to find helpful commentary on chess endgames I have found so looking forward to this series.

[@chinopicnik4727]

At last, i have finally found someone who is both in the hololive rabbit hole and the chess rabbit hole like me

[@theinacircleoftheancientpu492]

@@chinopicnik4727 haha hello there.

[@feelthiscombo]

I think your change of more concentrating in endgames and middlegames was good :) but it maybe would be better to end the opening series you´ve announced

[@alexwastakenwastaken]

Better for him or for you? He seemed fairly sure in the last video where he announced the change that he was not improving enough and that this was the way forward.

[@feelthiscombo]

@@alexwastakenwastaken I know but I mean at the end of the day it doesn't really matters if he would start with focusing on the things he mentioned 2 weeks or less later. And for me it doesn't matters at all I dont want to learn anything about the Dutch because I dont like it I've just thought about other viewers :^).

[@jkhodgson1]

Crystal clear presentation - awesome.

[@mikegloudemans5937]

Love it! Especially the last part about how to reduce games to known positions

[@hyrax2112]

Excellent, concise, and very easy to understand and implement. Thanks!

[@Tompsf1]

I really appreciate this basic rook and end game video! I didn’t know this before, and you are helping me to learn how to secure a draw when defending in this type of end game. Thank you so much!

[@bariscanselek]

As a 1700 rated player ive noticed that my endgame knowledge is terrible:) so these days im working hard on my endgames and your videos are helping me a lot, thanks sir

[@peterjohnston8507]

Great selection, and the several videos I have seen were very thorough. Thank you.

[@melomanmusic9762]

Very good video, easily understandable explanation. One of the best chess theory channels even now.

[@Dra.goneye]

Definitely best phildor chess vedio tutorial

[@kochevar99]

This is a great explanation. I found it helpful to practice this against the highest level of stockfish on Lichess. Stockfish will make all the moves you are probably thinking about. You can then drill it, or lose it and check and see what you do if x, y or z happens.

[@beri4138]

Good idea. You should also enable tablebases. I have personally seen Stockfish at depth 28 draw some of these WINNING endgame positions, believe it or not! You really, really should enable tablebases which enable Stockfish to play a league or two above its normal endgame level.

[@thomasrowley6643]

Many thanks for this video. It helped me to get a better understanding of the third rank defense. I hope to be able to apply it in my games!

[@linear7612]

Finally - Endgames are back, thank you very much!

[@babakmahmoudian4234]

This was super helpful. I might've been able to get to a draw without ever knowing this, but now that I know for sure that it ALWAYS leads to a draw, I can actually plan and strategize based on it, either as the attacker or the defender. Thank you very much.

[@mireslash]

I really like this new approach, I think I get good position out of the openings but get in trouble in middle games and end games.

[@debneilnagchowdhury1596]

Love the new approach mate. Actually pretty darn helpful for us amateurs. Keep rocking!

[@gabrielpianolad2462]

Thank you so much for making this so much easier to understand than all the other videos :)

[@MrJemevans]

Loving the channel still keep it up!

[@viswanathd2099]

That's an amazing one. Hats off. Keep the good work going. Looking forward for more videos.

[@PunkSlayer1995]

I lost a game at my local club last night because I didn't know this, and here I am. Thank you for the video.

[@simongustafsson348]

Love these kinds of videos! Keep up the good work

[@diosn6909]

Nice video! The Hawkins reference and the technique you mention is great! Maybe a supplementary video can be made about the defense against rook and knight pawns which is easier and more practical.

[@MordimersChessChannel]

Good way to start to understand chess - from the endgame. So the endgame technique could also be started with single pawns, then Philidor of course, then others. But good thing there are not so many to master. Then we add some pawns here and there and then the new way of thinking appears in our brain - how to reach known position. And it appears because we know that position, if we don't know these simple position we would just try to make "the best moves" - which usually doesn't work. Then we have more interesting complex positions near the endgame when we know if we are better/worse and we know what has to be played to simplify to - again - simple positions :D Masters in XVIII and XIX century gave us all the theoretical foundations, why not to use them to understand chess. Then middle game... then openings :)

[@sedfreyhebron466]

Thank you very much for this video, it is very easy to understand with this video

[@Socrates...]

Thank you so much, these positions are like gold

[@ianrhys]

thank you ... was very helpful

[@antivenom6336]

Thank you for the tutorial 👍

[@TheMonteGrey]

Really good! Please continue! :)

[@pranaynatvarlal]

I am quite confident with my opening but i end up messing up in the middle and endgame. I think these videos are gonna help my rating go up.

[@Suhaschintala]

This is brilliant!! thank you!

[@gsp_admirador]

Very helpful and instructive

[@josuerichard9521]

thanks for the video!

[@martingriffin5043]

Great help thanks for your efforts

[@vrebds2484]

Really excellent content!!👏 I was surprised how this is draw🤔🤯 But, really thank you.... Very very helpful video 🙏

[@kontobiol3020]

thanks hadnt known that before!

[@rodentampis4649]

Thank you. It helps a lot.

[@relaxeddave]

Very interesting! Thank you.

[@julianmoritz9948]

Hey! I really like your videos and explanations. Is there a possibility to show videos about rook vs. one pawn/ two pawns and three pawns?

[@asrieal]

I was waked up at 3am and someone asked me how i draw this position. thanks to this video i knew how to draw it

[@KeepChessSimple]

Great stuff, keep it up!

[@riccardospadini5555]

Nice job Stjepan, I sincerely think that endgame studies are going to be more instructive for your viewers! I really like the choice you made

[@kleinsign]

Hi, the Lucena position is also a must have in a chess repertoire.

[@lifestylechoicespatscully3284]

Nice video!!

[@billowen3285]

Nice video! Learnt something here :)

[@uvmetalworkingfabrication1873]

Great start to the endgame series...2100 by 2021!!

[@ramprasadshendge6638]

Simply great

[@maciejkowalski6771]

Great idea

[@dpyne909]

Thank you.

[@kennstedas]

in the last position does it matter if whites rook is on the cfile?

[@iMarc89]

I like endgame series. I'm confident I can hold my own in the middlegame and opening. Endgames are where I struggle.

[@alvaro39mg30]

Maybe you struggle at endgames because you messed up the middle game

[@iMarc89]

@@alvaro39mg30 Thanks for your concern over my middlegame play. Occasionally, yes, I might have a losing position with equal material and not recognise it. Rarely, though. I can usually tell if I'm dead lost. And obviously I'm not really playing the endgame if I'm down a rook or something and with no serious counterplay. Not in classical time formats, anyway. Maybe in rapid or blitz games where I'm way up on the clock, but that's different. If I'm down a rook and we enter the endgame, I'll usually resign as soon as I see that my opponent knows how to convert it. What I'm talking about is endgames where I'm up a pawn and we both have a pair of rooks, or a queen against two rooks with an equal number of pawns. Or queen and pawn endings where I start with the advantage. And more importantly, I would find tips useful on how to draw positions instead of losing them where it's possible. I knew Philidor's defence before this video and enjoyed the refresher nonetheless. Likewise I can draw king and pawn vs king from any position it's possible to do so. I'm not struggling in every endgames, but endgames ARE hard, and one mistake or one missed threat can often be there difference between a win and a draw, or a draw and a loss. Believe me when I say my rating would be at least a couple of dozen points higher if my endgame play was better. And ultimately, yes, my middlegame and opening could use some work. Everyone can improve everything. But my biggest concern with my game at the moment is losing games I should be drawing and occasionally drawing games I should win.

[@gnzlbr6173]

Holy shit I knew this existed but never studied it cus i cba but I just drew a lichess game in this position and I went straight to this video

[@NicoSeven7]

Thanks a lot.

[@HangingPawns]

Most welcome!

[@MohamedZashim.R]

you should make more videos about chess lessons ❤️

[@henrychess3]

Oooh endgame. We need this! 😍 Edit: can you make endgame vids in which the endgame is more complicated? Like, KRvsKR or KvsK but there are still a lot of pawns on the board

[@theinacircleoftheancientpu492]

Henry Chess Patience my boy, he will get there in time. Start simple. Build on that.

[@kochevar99]

Silman’s endgame course book is handy, but almost all of the chapters are with very few pawns on the board. You have to master the basics, as they are theoretical. All endgames with like 4(?) pieces are solved. Any more and it gets infinitely more complicated. However, Silman does talk about them, but it is in the section for 2200+ players. But like he mentioned in the video, getting back to a known position is handy, as you can plan how to play an endgame with seven pawns knowing where you need to end up to get an endgame like this one (or the Lucena position).

[@antivenom6336]

What if the attacking rook (white) is on the 6th rank ? How would I maneuver my Black rook to the 6th rank ? I've been failing miserably with Stockfish 8 😪 .

[@andi2381]

Does my rook (as the defender) have to be on the 3rd rank? Is the endgame lost if my opponents rook is on the 3rd rank instead?

[@makemerelax1130]

Good job.. from 🇱🇰 sri lanka

[@davidlerner1825]

You should try Dvoretsky’s book

[@stefanholbek2449]

Basic stuff can't be repeated too often. If you have watched Titled Tuesdays you see some serious lack of basic technique amongst GM's. You simply HAVE to spend some time on these. Thank you!

[@cristianmicu]

i would like you to put that jonathan book name and author in the description of this video thank you

[@dougveganparadisebuilder5808]

Besides talent, knowledge in chess is a necessity to climb the rating ladder. How many could have come up with this themselves? Zero to none.

[@enderrking2239]

Good luck with ur new training method, eventhough I was looking forward to the queen's Indian, I think this is more beneficial for ur progress

[@simjingjia8435]

Queens indian is bad opening

[@syn4621]

@@simjingjia8435 how so

[@siraf1234]

@@syn4621 It's not a bad opening but with perfect play whites gonna be better. See AlphaZeros games vs the qid

[@enderrking2239]

@@simjingjia8435 queen's Indian is the most common reply to d4 uk?

[@sachhyammansinghpradhan231]

Should we be worried if the white rook is commanding the 3rd line rather than our rook?

[@hitrakayembe5447]

Really its helping

[@flaticon5146]

What if they try to exchange rooks on the 3rd rank?

[@manuadhish1322]

Your voice seems different? Did u change the mic?

[@bobbyb5710]

what if white occupies 3th rank with his rook?

[@eliaucohen42837]

Congrats! Exelent video.

[@webdev2005]

Why u don't continue London system

[@rizka7945]

Watch his previous video, it's fully explained there.

[@Kekrke]

Very good but you did views more endgame to video

[@Richard_Buurstra]

Very nice and helpfull, but maybe set all the things up before start recording so you can do it in 1 go and make the vid shorter

[@DonaldSjervenE]

Two thumbs up.

[@kochevar99]

Also known as “checking the living shit out of the king” defense.

[@akshatsrivastavaaa]

What if the king hides behind the rook??

[@brianneedelman2125]

I did know this position, but the refresher was nice. Personally I need to practice these engames to really learn them, it would be great if there were drills associated with your videos. Here is a link to the Philidor postion endgame drill on chess.com, but it may require a membership: www.chess.com/drills/practice/rook-endgame-philidor-position

[@addfistyt6563]

❤️

[@tesshu2me]

Well explained, thanks 🙏