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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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Showing 1297–1320 of 2741 matching records

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Puzzle 0U6Xp

Rating 1723 advancedPawncrushingdefensiveMove
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Puzzle 0GTIg

Rating 1725 crushingdeflectionendgame
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Puzzle 0MDlh

Rating 1726 advantageendgamerookEndgame
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Puzzle 0KtcT

Rating 1729 crushingdeflectionendgame
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Puzzle 0FaZq

Rating 1732 advancedPawnadvantageendgame
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Puzzle 0G8cU

Rating 1734 crushingendgamerookEndgame
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Puzzle 0LLbt

Rating 1734 crushingdeflectionendgame
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Puzzle 035Fa

Rating 1735 advancedPawncrushingdefensiveMove
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Puzzle 0KK54

Rating 1737 advantagedefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 05Ux3

Rating 1739 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 09H6e

Rating 1739 advantagedefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0NiX8

Rating 1739 crushingendgameexposedKing
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Puzzle 0IZXm

Rating 1741 advantageendgamerookEndgame
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Puzzle 0E0QO

Rating 1745 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0GHOW

Rating 1745 crushingendgamerookEndgame
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Puzzle 0JgOx

Rating 1745 crushingendgamerookEndgame
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Puzzle 0NY0W

Rating 1747 crushingendgamerookEndgame
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Puzzle 05tQv

Rating 1752 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0KP1z

Rating 1754 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0BjgN

Rating 1755 crushingendgamerookEndgame
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Puzzle 0CxxP

Rating 1755 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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