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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 05E6W

Rating 2039 crushingdeflectionendgame
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Puzzle 0XAv1

Rating 2040 advantagedefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0M824

Rating 2041 advantagecollinearMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0JFsT

Rating 2042 crushingendgamequietMove
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Puzzle 0XmQd

Rating 2045 advancedPawnadvantageendgame
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Puzzle 07OC8

Rating 2046 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0cI11

Rating 2049 advancedPawncrushingdefensiveMove
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Puzzle 0djre

Rating 2050 advancedPawncrushingdefensiveMove
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Puzzle 0E49e

Rating 2051 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0LxBs

Rating 2052 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 03xIU

Rating 2053 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0IjVP

Rating 2053 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0cvTM

Rating 2055 attractioncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0H6pq

Rating 2055 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 05tr4

Rating 2057 advantageendgamerookEndgame
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Puzzle 0AFdX

Rating 2059 crushingendgamerookEndgame
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Puzzle 06MAj

Rating 2061 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 07jnu

Rating 2062 advantagedefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 004Ax

Rating 2064 crushingendgameexposedKing
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