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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 01sxB

Rating 2392 crushingendgamerookEndgame
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Puzzle 0XtCk

Rating 2393 clearancecrushingendgame
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Puzzle 05xRm

Rating 2394 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 09pwU

Rating 2394 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0fz2B

Rating 2396 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0sqEQ

Rating 2397 advancedPawncrushingdefensiveMove
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Puzzle 05jR0

Rating 2398 advancedPawncrushingdefensiveMove
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Puzzle 0VJbe

Rating 2399 crushingendgamerookEndgame
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Puzzle 08mgx

Rating 2400 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0xfNN

Rating 2400 advancedPawncrushingdefensiveMove
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Puzzle 0jT2C

Rating 2401 advancedPawnadvantageendgame
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Puzzle 0PSxA

Rating 2401 advancedPawnadvantagedefensiveMove
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Puzzle 14kJt

Rating 2401 crushingendgamerookEndgame
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Puzzle 1Z8fW

Rating 2402 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0fCfa

Rating 2403 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0ZCDv

Rating 2403 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 1DAgO

Rating 2403 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0QuhA

Rating 2405 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 1ByqY

Rating 2406 crushingendgamehangingPiece
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