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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 1537–1560 of 2741 matching records

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Puzzle 0KAzM

Rating 1950 crushingendgamequietMove
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Puzzle 06lS0

Rating 1951 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0SOeS

Rating 1953 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0YtGI

Rating 1955 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 04LdT

Rating 1961 crushingendgamerookEndgame
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Puzzle 0BW24

Rating 1961 advancedPawncrushingdefensiveMove
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Puzzle 0Ava7

Rating 1962 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 05vpY

Rating 1963 advancedPawncrushingdeflection
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Puzzle 0MZqf

Rating 1964 advantageendgamemaster
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Puzzle 08vYm

Rating 1965 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0Dksh

Rating 1965 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0PCad

Rating 1965 crushingendgamerookEndgame
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Puzzle 0SCsk

Rating 1965 advantageendgameexposedKing
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Puzzle 0CqZJ

Rating 1966 advancedPawncrushingdefensiveMove
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Puzzle 0QUiR

Rating 1966 advancedPawncrushingdefensiveMove
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Puzzle 0G4yG

Rating 1967 advancedPawncrushingdefensiveMove
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