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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 1129–1152 of 2741 matching records

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Puzzle 01aAR

Rating 1568 advancedPawncrushingdeflection
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Puzzle 02U6o

Rating 1570 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0G6WJ

Rating 1571 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0GifH

Rating 1572 advancedPawncrushingdefensiveMove
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Puzzle 0AxUL

Rating 1575 collinearMoveendgamemate
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Puzzle 0LIZs

Rating 1578 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0JusO

Rating 1579 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 039rW

Rating 1580 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 02Oy0

Rating 1581 crushingendgamerookEndgame
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Puzzle 0KouU

Rating 1581 attractioncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0Jnl6

Rating 1583 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 01VR8

Rating 1588 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 04RLw

Rating 1588 endgameepauletteMatelong
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Puzzle 0LDss

Rating 1589 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0Mh5F

Rating 1594 crushingendgameinterference
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Puzzle 0CFBE

Rating 1595 crushingendgamerookEndgame
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Puzzle 0PHsb

Rating 1595 crushingdeflectionendgame
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