A lot of information about the Rook and pawn versus rook endgame can be found in Wikipedia. This article gives a nice overview of the most important positions and methods to win or to hold the position.
It describes the following winning methods:
Pawn on the sixth or seventh rank
The king without the pawn cut off along [...]
In this lesson I only show eight diagrams of the rook and pawn versus rook endgame, but this time all the positions correspond to a draw if played properly. Are you able to hold these postions as Black.
The rook and pawn versus rook endgames are very important to study because these are the simplest versions of the very frequent occurring rook endgames.
Let’s have a look at the diagrams below. All these positions are a win for White, but do you know why?
This lesson will explain a part of this KRP-KR endgame.
In the wikibook Elements of chess strategy you can find an explanation of the most important ideas of chess strategy:
Development
Mobility
The center
The positions of the kings
Weak and strong squares
Pawn structure
Queenside pawn majority
Open lines
Minor pieces
We have seen most of these positional ideas before on Chess Teaching, but the mentioned Wikibook describes them in a rather different [...]
In the previous lessons we have seen how we can take advantage of some positional characteristics of a chess position. Based on these lessons we try to locate undefended pieces, pieces that are placed on the same file, line or diagonal or an unsavely positioned king. This may enable us to find a nice combination.
But [...]
