2 pawns vs rook. How to win?

Hey everyone,

I don't want the exact moves, but can anyone tell me a thematic way to win this end game. Eg get behind the backward pawn or something (I'm not sure). Even though this looks easy, what is the clean nice method to win this game quickly. Youtube videos on this are very few and not very good. Example.

Black pawns are moving down. White to move and win in a nice logical universal method that can be applied to many scenarios like this  Thanks a lot.

Hi there! This is quite a straightforward win. The only way I can see someone struggling in to win it will be when the two pawns are on the same rank. This is because it creates a wall against the king and it requires a lot of time for the king to walk around the "pawn wall" and that might be enough time to push the pawns for them to become dangerous. Hence, in those situations, the goal is to force one of the pawns to be pushed, thereby breaking to "pawn wall". This can be done by the rook alone via zugzwang. Below is an example of how it can be executed. I have also included some sidelines on possible ways the attacker can go wrong.

Hope this helps

Hey thanks. That certainly helped, can you elaborate on the thinking if you can. What I gathered from what you showed is, attack the pawns from behind using rook, your king infront of pawn, make sure pawns are forced to move so they are not creating a pawn wall, your king jumps inside the broken wall and finish the job. 

You got it  That's exactly how you do it. Of course, there are probably some other methods but I find this to be easiest.

Hey thanks again. Hope you hang around here and help us with more questions when you have time.