Progressing at chess. About Chess - Chess Instruction, Chess Games, Chess Tips, Learn to Play Chess, How to Play Chess. Chess Teacher Lessons. Chess Teacher Lessons Chess Teacher Lessons is about free chess instructions and exercises for teachers and players. The site contains more than 100 chess lessons and can be found at it's own domain since January 2010. The original site was running on WordPress, but at the moment you are looking at the Google Sites version. This will be our new home. The third rank defense The third rank defense is the most important defense in the king and rook versus king, rook and pawn endgame. There is already a lot of information about this position available on the internet, for example in the Philidor position on Wikipedia and I will limit this post to some additional information which probably helps to really understand this position. First of all it is important to understand that the weaker side strives to capture the pawn or to exchange the rooks while being in a position that the pawn can be stopped..............
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