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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 2185–2208 of 2741 matching records

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Puzzle 0kSKq

Rating 2433 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 03mcu

Rating 2435 advancedPawncrushingdeflection
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Puzzle 0AbrN

Rating 2435 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 18EvJ

Rating 2436 crushingendgamequietMove
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Puzzle 1bubE

Rating 2436 crushingendgamerookEndgame
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Puzzle 0WhIt

Rating 2437 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0kCN5

Rating 2440 advantageclearancedefensiveMove
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Puzzle 0ny3H

Rating 2440 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0r6TN

Rating 2440 advantageendgamerookEndgame
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Puzzle 1dPSx

Rating 2440 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0ce9F

Rating 2442 crushingendgamequietMove
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Puzzle 0bX4H

Rating 2443 advancedPawncrushingdefensiveMove
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Puzzle 0NSGa

Rating 2443 advantageendgamerookEndgame
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Puzzle 17nfi

Rating 2449 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 1bpKh

Rating 2449 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0tfln

Rating 2450 crushingendgamequietMove
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