#Ладейное Окончание

The most common endgame on the board — appearing in roughly one in eight master games — and the one whose theory is too rich to be a single position. A map of the cases that arise, the ones that win, and the ones that draw.

The canonical winning technique in king-and-rook-and-pawn versus king-and-rook — when the pawn has reached the seventh rank, the defender's king is cut off, and the attacker must build a bridge to shelter from rook checks.

The defensive cousin of the Lucena — how the weaker side draws king-and-rook against king-and-rook-and-pawn when the defender's king is on the queening square and the rook can hold the third rank.

The defensive method that holds rook-and-pawn against rook when the pawn is a rook pawn — the case where the Lucena method fails and the Philidor needs reinforcement.