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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 1393–1416 of 2741 matching records

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Puzzle 0NJmz

Rating 1825 crushingendgameintermezzo
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Puzzle 0UO8Y

Rating 1825 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0H3gM

Rating 1826 crushingendgamerookEndgame
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Puzzle 01yso

Rating 1827 crushingendgamerookEndgame
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Puzzle 0QuKx

Rating 1827 crushingendgamerookEndgame
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Puzzle 0NBg2

Rating 1831 crushingendgamequietMove
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Puzzle 0CMKk

Rating 1832 advancedPawncrushingdeflection
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Puzzle 0UyKK

Rating 1832 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0JrV4

Rating 1833 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 03Ys5

Rating 1834 advantageendgamerookEndgame
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Puzzle 0DwTB

Rating 1834 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0T4YD

Rating 1837 advancedPawncrushingdefensiveMove
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Puzzle 0RUfG

Rating 1838 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0X202

Rating 1838 advancedPawnadvantagedefensiveMove
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Puzzle 07pCZ

Rating 1839 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 09tRk

Rating 1839 advantageendgamerookEndgame
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Puzzle 0GRtV

Rating 1840 crushingendgamerookEndgame
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Puzzle 03TpT

Rating 1841 advancedPawncrushingdefensiveMove
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Puzzle 0CYzf

Rating 1841 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0MbOQ

Rating 1841 crushingendgamemaster
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