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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 1369–1392 of 2741 matching records

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Puzzle 0AneJ

Rating 1807 advancedPawncrushingdeflection
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Puzzle 0HS8g

Rating 1807 advancedPawncrushingdefensiveMove
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Puzzle 0CH48

Rating 1809 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 01SN2

Rating 1810 crushingendgamemaster
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Puzzle 08fk2

Rating 1813 crushingendgamerookEndgame
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Puzzle 0KABf

Rating 1813 crushingdefensiveMovedeflection
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Puzzle 0L2xO

Rating 1814 advancedPawncrushingdefensiveMove
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Puzzle 00G1l

Rating 1815 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0Hxk4

Rating 1815 crushingendgameintermezzo
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Puzzle 00lHu

Rating 1816 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0A6vf

Rating 1816 crushingendgamerookEndgame
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Puzzle 0L3JK

Rating 1818 crushingdeflectionendgame
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Puzzle 030Hr

Rating 1822 advantageendgameexposedKing
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Puzzle 0Bffh

Rating 1822 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0165r

Rating 1823 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 05meP

Rating 1823 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0Ji9V

Rating 1823 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0TJ6L

Rating 1823 crushingdeflectionendgame
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Puzzle 0ELQa

Rating 1824 crushingendgamemaster
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