Vancura Position – Rook and Pawn Endgames

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A new endgame episode is coming up every Thursday! To continue the series, I have decided to cover the absolutely essential endgames every tournament player must know.

In this video I have gone over the Vancura (or Vančura) position, named after a Czech theoretician from the early 20th century. His study of this rook and pawn endgame was published after his premature death at the age of 23, in 1924.

This is another absolutely essential rook and pawn endgame drawing technique which every tournament player should know by heart.

The Vancura position is a sixth/third rank defense in which you keep a rook pawn under pressure with your rook along the rank. This frees up your king and you can keep it on the safe squares (away from a nasty pattern of advancing the pawn to the seventh and switching the rook across the board to free it).

The idea is that the defender’s king can find no shelter from the checks and can thus make no progress, and if the pawn should advance to the seventh rank, we simply switch our rook behind it and employ a simple drawing technique of keeping the rook stuck to the defense and checking the king away if it approaches.

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