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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 07SHM

Rating 1083 crushingendgamerookEndgame
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Puzzle 01bFi

Rating 1084 crushingdeflectionendgame
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Puzzle 0NkVk

Rating 1084 crushingendgamerookEndgame
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Puzzle 03YmY

Rating 1085 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0GLZ1

Rating 1093 crushingdeflectionendgame
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Puzzle 02hRj

Rating 1094 advancedPawnadvantagedeflection
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Puzzle 0LkUY

Rating 1095 advancedPawncrushingdefensiveMove
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Puzzle 0DqY6

Rating 1108 crushingdeflectionendgame
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