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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 2089–2112 of 2741 matching records

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Puzzle 0rScL

Rating 2374 advancedPawncrushingdeflection
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Puzzle 09VoA

Rating 2376 advantagedefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0MkJa

Rating 2376 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0uuAH

Rating 2376 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0ZHDp

Rating 2377 advancedPawncrushingdefensiveMove
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Puzzle 01we5

Rating 2378 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0ACSC

Rating 2381 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 10Vq4

Rating 2383 crushingendgamerookEndgame
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Puzzle 0nmYD

Rating 2384 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0VRGp

Rating 2386 crushingendgamerookEndgame
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Puzzle 0LVDb

Rating 2387 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0VbCq

Rating 2387 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 05lEx

Rating 2388 crushingendgamehangingPiece
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Puzzle 0B2Dr

Rating 2388 crushingdeflectionendgame
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