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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 1585–1608 of 2741 matching records

challenging

Puzzle 0GpX3

Rating 1989 crushingendgamemaster
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Puzzle 0XmDl

Rating 1989 crushingdeflectionendgame
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Puzzle 00lo9

Rating 1990 advantagediscoveredAttackdiscoveredCheck
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Puzzle 0VCP1

Rating 1990 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0Vv5K

Rating 1990 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 08px6

Rating 1992 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0RHGb

Rating 1992 advantagedefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0XL22

Rating 1992 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 01AcF

Rating 1993 crushingendgamerookEndgame
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Puzzle 0N9y9

Rating 1993 crushingendgamemaster
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Puzzle 01t67

Rating 1994 advantageendgamerookEndgame
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Puzzle 03Q5V

Rating 1996 crushingendgamerookEndgame
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Puzzle 06GQr

Rating 1998 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0EszQ

Rating 1998 advancedPawnclearancecrushing
advanced

Puzzle 0MIDu

Rating 2001 crushingdeflectionendgame
advanced

Puzzle 0Ujhh

Rating 2002 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
advanced

Puzzle 02sDX

Rating 2003 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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