Originally posted by skims
Which books did you use to study rook endings? Which did you find the most useful?
I've so far only used Silman's Complete Endgame Course. While it is a pretty nice book, it does not go in very deep for rook endgames. It only shows you 1-2 examples for each lesson (ton of lessons in the book) Then again, I have not yet finished the book. It has NOT been my primary source for endgame study. Do not expect it to suddenly make you a master of endgames, but reading a lesson everyday from it will lend you some tricks you've never known before. Overall very useful 'catalogue'
The primary source I have used is lessons from FM Daniel Rensch. Through a website (PM me if you want it), he clearly provided a series of 10 videos outlining rook endgames, from beginners (which I was at the time), to master. Watching these videos (about 3-4 hours of material) is the best use of study time I've ever had. I'm going through them a second and third time as these tricky positions that he goes over with are actually common. From his videos I was able to win that game!
Finally, I used a chess program called Chess Mentor (also through that same site) in order to practice rook vs rook + pawn endgames. This is especially important than just being fed the information - there are SO many tricky positions that you simply MUST practice it on a board somehow.
Unfortunately, it costs about 90-100$ for such a membership (annual) but I assure you it is money well invested if you are taking chess seriously; as they have tons of videos from GMs, IMs, and FMs like Daniel Rensch covering all sorts of themes in chess. I don't want to advertise that site anymore here though, PM me for more information.