Muddled thinking

 I have inventorized my last 50 games. About 25% had a  rook ending in them. I am very bad at it. So I managed to draw won endings, and to lose drawn endings. I have no feeling whatsoever for rook endings.

I solved my opening problems, I solved most middlegame problems, but in the ending I feel lost. I have a lot of endgame knowledge acquired over the years, like theoretical rook endings, but I fail to connect the dots. I never have encountered a Philidor or Luceena in my life. To summarize: I simply cannot concoct a plan for the ending.

Screwing up a won ending is of course a luxury problem. Since I'm almost retired, it is high time to fix this problem.

My Chessable course of choice is Conceptual Rook Endgames of GM Jacob Aagaard. He makes a bit the impression of a muddled thinker, but the subject of his course seems to be right on the money. Since I'm the one who is confused, I might well project my own shortcomings on him. But if that is the case, I'll iron that out. He seems to act like a programmer who tries to solve an error, and change 3 or 4 variables at the same time. I usually have an iron discipline and change only 1 variable at the time.

But that is the problem with high level authors, they don't see the problems I see. They tend to forget to mention what is intuitive to them.

I look forward to it!