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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 0AsSY

Rating 2297 crushingendgamerookEndgame
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Puzzle 0qgjB

Rating 2297 advancedPawnadvantageendgame
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Puzzle 04kWd

Rating 2298 crushingendgamerookEndgame
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Puzzle 0xc4M

Rating 2299 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0e80M

Rating 2300 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0HsUY

Rating 2301 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 08BGP

Rating 2302 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0AvzR

Rating 2302 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0yyEO

Rating 2302 advantageendgamerookEndgame
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Puzzle 0qTRx

Rating 2303 advantagedefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0VY8v

Rating 2305 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0KBHn

Rating 2306 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0n3ON

Rating 2307 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0yHk4

Rating 2307 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0lnt3

Rating 2308 crushingdefensiveMovediscoveredAttack
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Puzzle 0T8js

Rating 2311 clearancecrushingdefensiveMove
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Puzzle 0nnrn

Rating 2312 crushingendgamequietMove
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Puzzle 0nk7a

Rating 2316 advancedPawncrushingdefensiveMove
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