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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.

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Puzzle 0EpuB

Rating 2158 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0dJL0

Rating 2163 crushingendgamequietMove
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Puzzle 0MbaN

Rating 2163 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 03uRJ

Rating 2164 endgameepauletteMateexposedKing
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Puzzle 0aNf3

Rating 2164 crushingdiscoveredAttackdiscoveredCheck
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Puzzle 0O0Zu

Rating 2164 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0E7V8

Rating 2165 crushingendgameexposedKing
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Puzzle 0Q9Xy

Rating 2169 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0GB91

Rating 2170 crushingendgamerookEndgame
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Puzzle 0eyPM

Rating 2175 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0J3hT

Rating 2175 crushingendgameexposedKing
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Puzzle 0ZGcD

Rating 2175 advancedPawncrushingdefensiveMove
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Puzzle 0Mwki

Rating 2176 crushingendgamequietMove
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Puzzle 04myA

Rating 2177 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0eTWw

Rating 2177 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 09iQD

Rating 2178 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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