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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.

Showing 2545–2568 of 2741 matching records

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Puzzle 111yr

Rating 2686 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 1XbWs

Rating 2686 crushingendgamerookEndgame
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Puzzle 1WeOC

Rating 2687 advancedPawnadvantageendgame
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Puzzle 1k0si

Rating 2688 advancedPawnadvantageendgame
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Puzzle 0up8u

Rating 2689 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0HcWV

Rating 2690 crushingendgamerookEndgame
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Puzzle 0OEMK

Rating 2690 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0Jqg0

Rating 2693 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 1EOEr

Rating 2693 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 070A2

Rating 2694 crushingdeflectionendgame
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Puzzle 0yAXY

Rating 2694 advancedPawncrushingdefensiveMove
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Puzzle 2MM8L

Rating 2694 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 1FTGZ

Rating 2695 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 1v707

Rating 2695 advancedPawnadvantageendgame
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Puzzle 2MKLT

Rating 2695 advancedPawncrushingdefensiveMove
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Puzzle 1YqmD

Rating 2696 advantagedefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 1ORxr

Rating 2698 advancedPawncrushingdefensiveMove
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Puzzle 1Mqz3

Rating 2700 crushingendgamequietMove
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Puzzle 17KZ0

Rating 2701 advantagedefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 1Ggyb

Rating 2701 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 1pE4Y

Rating 2702 advancedPawncrushingdefensiveMove
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