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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 1489–1512 of 2741 matching records

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Puzzle 0HvYK

Rating 1919 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 01H6V

Rating 1920 advantageendgamemaster
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Puzzle 02irR

Rating 1920 crushingendgamehangingPiece
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Puzzle 0SHpw

Rating 1920 crushingendgamerookEndgame
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Puzzle 003aS

Rating 1921 advancedPawncrushingdefensiveMove
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Puzzle 0KdeK

Rating 1922 advancedPawnendgamemate
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Puzzle 0OUyb

Rating 1922 crushingendgamemaster
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Puzzle 055GB

Rating 1924 crushingdeflectionendgame
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Puzzle 0Te1o

Rating 1925 crushingdeflectionendgame
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Puzzle 0AZT4

Rating 1926 advancedPawnclearancecrushing
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Puzzle 098YY

Rating 1927 endgameexposedKinglong
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Puzzle 0Mbgh

Rating 1927 crushingendgameinterference
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Puzzle 0TFy1

Rating 1927 crushingendgamemaster
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Puzzle 0Rtbc

Rating 1929 advantagedefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0BfnJ

Rating 1930 crushingendgameexposedKing
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Puzzle 00798

Rating 1931 crushingdiscoveredAttackendgame
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Puzzle 02H9Q

Rating 1931 crushingendgamerookEndgame
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Puzzle 0HglS

Rating 1932 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0Mf5Z

Rating 1933 crushingendgamerookEndgame
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Puzzle 0XWk1

Rating 1935 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0CPuK

Rating 1936 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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