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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 2593–2616 of 2741 matching records

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Puzzle 23jCs

Rating 2716 advancedPawnadvantageendgame
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Puzzle 1ljsY

Rating 2718 advancedPawncrushingdefensiveMove
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Puzzle 19Y5v

Rating 2719 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 157af

Rating 2721 crushingendgamerookEndgame
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Puzzle 1c4vI

Rating 2721 advancedPawncrushingdeflection
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Puzzle 1LweD

Rating 2721 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 17Erq

Rating 2722 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 2KBSd

Rating 2722 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0PpLj

Rating 2723 advancedPawncrushingdefensiveMove
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Puzzle 0tUcH

Rating 2724 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 1TrvN

Rating 2724 advancedPawncrushingdefensiveMove
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Puzzle 1FZKs

Rating 2725 advancedPawncrushingdefensiveMove
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Puzzle 2CeBG

Rating 2726 crushingendgameexposedKing
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Puzzle 03qQI

Rating 2727 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0q5IX

Rating 2727 crushingendgamequietMove
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Puzzle 0yyrM

Rating 2727 crushingendgamerookEndgame
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Puzzle 0Kk24

Rating 2729 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0yHZO

Rating 2730 advantageendgamequietMove
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Puzzle 0VoId

Rating 2731 crushingendgamerookEndgame
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