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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 2713–2736 of 2741 matching records

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Puzzle 10MXv

Rating 2784 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 1rNul

Rating 2784 advancedPawncrushingdefensiveMove
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Puzzle 1vEkA

Rating 2785 crushingendgamerookEndgame
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Puzzle 1PZa9

Rating 2786 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 17EQB

Rating 2787 advantagedefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0Ffy8

Rating 2788 crushingendgameintermezzo
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Puzzle 1AGga

Rating 2788 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0lNHy

Rating 2790 crushingendgamerookEndgame
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Puzzle 067eG

Rating 2791 crushingendgamequietMove
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Puzzle 0TCw6

Rating 2791 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 1sSeI

Rating 2791 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 1pxic

Rating 2792 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 05uNL

Rating 2794 crushingendgamequietMove
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Puzzle 07W1f

Rating 2794 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 28cO7

Rating 2794 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 01VHY

Rating 2795 advancedPawncrushingdefensiveMove
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Puzzle 12YJD

Rating 2797 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 1c4ZF

Rating 2797 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0ZtFk

Rating 2798 crushingendgamequietMove
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