Endgame Expertise Rook Endgames by GM Ivan Sokolov & by GM Efstratios Grivas Chessable

Threw away another rook endgame you should’ve won?

Two Gold-Winning Chess Trainers Show You How To Play Rook Endgames Like A Pro

In rook endgames, one can have a two-pawn advantage, and throw everything away after the slightest inaccuracy. Or worse, lose what was a pleasant game without having an inkling of what went wrong!

If this hits home, then you’ll love Endgame Expertise: Rook Endgames by grandmasters and FIDE senior trainers, Efstratios Grivas and Ivan Sokolov.

Grivas’ peak rating of 2528 Elo and gold medal from the 9th European Team Championship are a testament to his playing strength.

But Grivas’ real forte is developing young talents. Since he was 19, he’s spent over 12,000 hours teaching pro-level chess through every medium you can think of, regularly winning accolades for his contributions to chess education.

Joining Grivas is Sokolov, former world #12 and 2700-player. He was the coach and captain of the gold-winning Uzbek team in the 2022 Olympiad.

And together, Grivas and Sokolov will show you…

Time-Tested Techniques To
Maximize Your Results In Rook Endgames

Endgame Expertise: Rook Endgames is an in-depth playbook for acing the endings you’ll play the most.

Inside, you will find 12 chapters which cover nearly every endgame scenario involving rooks. Every chapter lays out the right strategy — and shows you how to follow through with precise move-by-move technique.

This way, you’ll have clarity on the best placement for your pieces… the squares you must control… the maneuvers to gain the advantage… and exactly when to play them.

Inside Endgame Expertise: Rook Endgames, you will learn about:

🥇 The rule of economy. Or how to stop the opponent’s passed pawn, while promoting yours with a single rook maneuver.

🥇 Strategic templates for breaking the bishop-and-pawn duo and their tricky fortresses.

🥇 How to draw pawn-down positions with the frontal attack — and why this method only works when the enemy pawn hasn’t crossed the middle of the board.

🥇 The thematic tactic which enables your lone rook to save the game against an enemy rook and knight.

🥇 The 3rd rank defense… which freezes the enemy king and his pawns on their side of the board. Even super-grandmasters forget about this defensive technique from 1908!

Super-GM Shakh Mamedyarov missed
the saving move in this position

🥇 The ideal location for your rook to stop a passed pawn — and how to prioritize targets when facing multiple enemy pawns.

Plus many more.

Everything’s wrapped into 9.5 hours of video, so you can rewatch any part of the course as much as you’d like.

You also get 517 MoveTrainer variations and puzzles to drill the moves to perfection. So when game time comes, winning becomes a simple matter of playing out what you already know.

Endgame Expertise: Rook Endgames can give you the confidence, clarity, and technical prowess to ace rook endgames. And we’re inviting you to experience it yourself.