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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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Puzzle 0Bckv

Rating 2004 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0Zveh

Rating 2004 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0Cwfs

Rating 2006 crushingendgamerookEndgame
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Puzzle 0fJwe

Rating 2007 crushingendgamerookEndgame
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Puzzle 0UnkP

Rating 2008 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0cMhb

Rating 2010 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0EGKh

Rating 2011 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0GtEf

Rating 2011 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0h1zG

Rating 2011 defensiveMoveendgameexposedKing
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Puzzle 0dQna

Rating 2012 advancedPawnadvantageendgame
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Puzzle 0OauS

Rating 2012 crushingendgamerookEndgame
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Puzzle 0En60

Rating 2014 advantageendgamerookEndgame
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Puzzle 02DtC

Rating 2016 advancedPawncrushingdefensiveMove
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Puzzle 02GrG

Rating 2016 crushingendgamerookEndgame
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Puzzle 04EZu

Rating 2016 crushingendgamerookEndgame
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Puzzle 0OZy6

Rating 2016 deflectionendgameequality
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Puzzle 06OL3

Rating 2017 advantageendgamerookEndgame
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Puzzle 0fRER

Rating 2018 advancedPawncrushingdefensiveMove
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Puzzle 0Niek

Rating 2019 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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