Jun 3, 2020 -- 11:59AM, politicspunter wrote:

Ok. Let's look at the position in your 11.19 post. You have your rook on c2 and have pushed your pawn to c7. This is perfect as black is forced to keep his king at c8 to stop the pawn going in. If you didn't have another pawn it would probably be a draw, but you have and it's protected. Black can't use his rook and pawn to take the pawn at c7 as you just chop the rooks off and move your king up the board to somewhere like e7 and march your f2 pawn in. Your first move should be Kf4, then Ke5 then Kd6. Notice that on d6, the black rook can't check you on the 8th rank because of your pawn on c7? Now it's just a case of gradually advancing your f pawn, keeping guarding it with your rook until it gets all the way to a queen (supported by your king near the end). Black is totally tied up, he can't cover everything. Black also has to ensure that he can try his best to keep checking you or else your rook might be able to go to b2 then b8 and mate him.

Very well done. My point was that it wasn't as easy as you made out. You actually worked it out which is impressive. Rook and pawn endings are notoriously difficult and have won many a point for me and also lost many. When starting out in chess I'd forget them.