Rook Strategies
Rooks are strong pieces that are worth about 5 pawns. They are long-range pieces that like open positions and often act from a distance.
Rooks don’t usually do much early in the opening. The list of opening strategies for rooks includes:
- Keep the Rooks at Home
- Develop the Rooks to the Center Files
Rook Tactics in the Middlegame
Tactical Rook middlegame strategies include:
- Pins
- Rook pins
- Rook skewers
- Rook forks
- Pinned rook
- Trapped rook
- Smothered rook
- Dominated Rook
- Rook Tactics
- Two Rooks
Rook Positional Play
Positional rook strategies include:
- Rooks on Open Files
- Rooks on Half-Open Files
- Dominating Rook
- Hovering Rook
- Double Rooks on the Seventh Rank
- Defensive Rook
- Rooks Attack Backward Pawn
- Defensive Exchange Sacrifices
Rook Endgame Strategies
The list of rook endgame strategies includes:
- Rook Endings
- Double Rook Endings
- Active vs Passive Rook
- Passed Pawns Weak in Double Rook Endings
- Queenless Semi-Ending Strategies
- Rook vs Pawn Endings
- Rook vs Two Pawns
- Queen vs Rook endings
- Queen vs Two Rooks endings
- Rook vs Knight endings
- Rook vs Bishop endings