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Rook endgame tactics Chess Puzzles

Search 49,500 locally indexed real-game positions, narrow them by motif, difficulty or rating, then play each stored tactical line directly on the board without an upstream connection.

2741 real-game puzzles in this collection

What is a rook endgame tactics?

The most common endgame in chess, condensed into its tactical moments: skewers, back-rank tricks, bridge-building and pawn-race calculations.

How to spot it

Active rook beats material count. Check every skewer along ranks and files, every cutting-off move, and every chance to reach the famous Lucena or Philidor structures.

What this set trains

Practical rating points — rook endgames appear in a huge share of long games at every level.

Foundation: 714Developing: 441Challenging: 447Advanced: 1139

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24 shown from 49500 locally materialized records.

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Puzzle 0gzTa

Rating 2588 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0mbSS

Rating 2589 crushingendgamerookEndgame
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Puzzle 15lep

Rating 2591 advancedPawnadvantageendgame
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Puzzle 1GsdF

Rating 2591 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0LUcc

Rating 2594 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 1Miyb

Rating 2598 crushingendgamerookEndgame
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Puzzle 0irqg

Rating 2599 crushingendgamequietMove
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Puzzle 1ZTQ4

Rating 2600 advantageendgamerookEndgame
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Puzzle 0sHk6

Rating 2601 crushingendgamerookEndgame
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Puzzle 0VSvx

Rating 2601 advancedPawncrushingdefensiveMove
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Puzzle 1mQuy

Rating 2601 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 22Tv0

Rating 2601 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0lXqg

Rating 2602 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0iOhr

Rating 2604 crushingendgamerookEndgame
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Puzzle 0mfcC

Rating 2604 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0sQGS

Rating 2605 advancedPawncrushingdefensiveMove
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Puzzle 0uLjA

Rating 2605 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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