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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 0SmPb

Rating 2421 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 1eFKW

Rating 2421 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 1OtTB

Rating 2421 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0V8ro

Rating 2422 advancedPawncrushingdeflection
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Puzzle 11lKQ

Rating 2422 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 1Ggqq

Rating 2422 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 1W5nM

Rating 2422 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0JR4V

Rating 2424 crushingendgameexposedKing
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Puzzle 1W3os

Rating 2424 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 1ihEi

Rating 2425 endgameequalityrookEndgame
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Puzzle 18MCp

Rating 2426 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 1WGT3

Rating 2427 crushingendgameexposedKing
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Puzzle 0g7zf

Rating 2428 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0TQcl

Rating 2428 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0x49K

Rating 2428 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 1PB0Z

Rating 2428 crushingendgamerookEndgame
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Puzzle 03GM2

Rating 2429 crushingendgamequietMove
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Puzzle 0f2aA

Rating 2429 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 1W4XM

Rating 2429 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 1Agr9

Rating 2432 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 1Nx0A

Rating 2432 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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