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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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Puzzle 0EsqH

Rating 1777 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0M6tM

Rating 1779 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0MfIy

Rating 1779 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0DYTq

Rating 1781 crushingendgameexposedKing
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Puzzle 0IaIS

Rating 1781 attractioncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0DNCh

Rating 1783 crushingendgamerookEndgame
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Puzzle 02Yx1

Rating 1784 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0QROD

Rating 1786 crushingendgamerookEndgame
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Puzzle 0B2aX

Rating 1788 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0EWGA

Rating 1790 advancedPawncrushingdeflection
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Puzzle 0Scj7

Rating 1790 crushingendgameintermezzo
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Puzzle 0La8F

Rating 1793 crushingdefensiveMovedeflection
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Puzzle 0F5JZ

Rating 1794 crushingendgamerookEndgame
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Puzzle 0POfc

Rating 1794 advancedPawncapturingDefendercrushing
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Puzzle 08vXy

Rating 1797 advancedPawncrushingdeflection
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Puzzle 0STvQ

Rating 1800 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0E93E

Rating 1802 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 06llD

Rating 1803 crushingendgamerookEndgame
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Puzzle 0MG6y

Rating 1805 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0Y75L

Rating 1805 crushingdeflectionendgame
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