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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 1561–1584 of 2741 matching records

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Puzzle 0V9by

Rating 1967 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0LJdV

Rating 1968 crushingendgamemaster
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Puzzle 0Mdr7

Rating 1968 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 02YSF

Rating 1970 advancedPawncrushingdeflection
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Puzzle 0ROMW

Rating 1972 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 03Cge

Rating 1973 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0TRcp

Rating 1974 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 02AQs

Rating 1975 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0STpI

Rating 1975 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 07uwr

Rating 1978 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0B3rI

Rating 1981 crushingendgamemaster
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Puzzle 0Aqwk

Rating 1982 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0C39L

Rating 1982 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0GgsE

Rating 1982 crushingendgamemaster
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Puzzle 0R8Yj

Rating 1983 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0UiFh

Rating 1983 advancedPawncrushingdefensiveMove
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Puzzle 0LD0w

Rating 1985 advantagedefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0XPZy

Rating 1985 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0Oec7

Rating 1986 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0TGzE

Rating 1988 crushingendgamerookEndgame
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