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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 1513–1536 of 2741 matching records

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Puzzle 0Y5It

Rating 1936 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 06AMx

Rating 1939 crushingendgameexposedKing
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Puzzle 0CNG4

Rating 1940 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0XGTt

Rating 1942 advancedPawnadvantagedefensiveMove
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Puzzle 0BSkg

Rating 1943 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0C0vp

Rating 1943 crushingdeflectionendgame
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Puzzle 0E0Qe

Rating 1943 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0Ibhn

Rating 1943 advancedPawncrushingdefensiveMove
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Puzzle 0DTjR

Rating 1945 advancedPawnadvantageendgame
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Puzzle 0F4Kx

Rating 1945 crushingdeflectionendgame
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Puzzle 08ELm

Rating 1946 crushingendgamerookEndgame
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Puzzle 0EX4I

Rating 1947 crushingendgamerookEndgame
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Puzzle 0OURR

Rating 1947 crushingendgamemaster
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Puzzle 0TEAW

Rating 1947 crushingendgamerookEndgame
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Puzzle 0IJ6I

Rating 1948 endgameexposedKinglong
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Puzzle 0Iwtn

Rating 1948 attractionendgamelong
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Puzzle 00WVK

Rating 1949 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 02Jyd

Rating 1949 crushingendgamequietMove
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