Final Score

Rook endings played at the 2013 Candidates' tournament:-

Radjabov 3  

Gelfand  2 

Grischuk 2 

Ivanchuk 2 

Aronian  1 

Carlsen  1 

Kramnik  1

Svidler  0

Winner

That's six rook endings (being generous with the definition) from 56 games at a healthy 10.71%. True, it took the intervention of your humble scribe to get things moving - The Campaign for the Preservation of Rook Endings - but there's no need to thank me.

You can find

• Grischuk-Radjabov (5) here;
• Gelfand-Aronian (9) and Ivanchuk-Radjabov (9) here;
• Carlsen-Ivanchuk (12) and Radjabov-Grischuk (12) here;
• Kramnik-Gelfand at the foot of today's blog;
• and you can test your technique against Magnus Carlsen here.

In other news, some Norwegian kid has qualifed to play a match for the World Championship.

Rook and pawn Index

Radja via chess.com