Chess Puzzles

Sharpen your tactics with 50,000 hand-picked chess puzzles — from beginner forks to expert checkmate combinations. Solve online, free, on any device.

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50,000
Puzzles

36
Tactical Themes

5
Difficulty Levels

Daily Puzzle

White to move

Popular Puzzles

Browse by Tactic

🍴 Fork 6,963 📌 Pin 3,479 🍢 Skewer 1,186 🎯 Discovered Attack 2,988 ‼️ Double Check 331 ↩️ Deflection 2,565 🧲 Attraction 2,168 🚪 Clearance 792 🩻 X-Ray Attack 193 🎣 Hanging Piece 1,662 🛡️ Removing the Defender 429 💥 Sacrifice 4,413 🤫 Quiet Move 2,152 🕸️ Trapped Piece 712 🔥 Attack on f2/f7 318 👻 En Passant 84 🏰 Castling 21

Checkmate Patterns

1️⃣ Mate in 1 4,082 2️⃣ Mate in 2 5,326 3️⃣ Mate in 3 1,797 4️⃣ Mate in 4 322 5️⃣ Mate in 5 69 🔙 Back-Rank Mate 686 😶 Smothered Mate 148 👑 Kingside Attack 3,798 ♛ Queenside Attack 725

Endgame Puzzles

♜ Rook Endgame 2,510 ♟️ Pawn Endgame 1,982 ♝ Bishop Endgame 781 ♞ Knight Endgame 463 ♛ Queen Endgame 593 🔒 Zugzwang 627 ⬆️ Promotion 1,250 ↕️ Underpromotion 11

Browse by Level

Beginner Rated 800–999 6,250 Easy Rated 1000–1399 12,500 Intermediate Rated 1400–1799 12,500 Advanced Rated 1800–2199 12,500 Expert Rated 2200+ 6,250

Why train with chess puzzles?

Studies of chess improvement agree on one thing: solving tactics puzzles is the fastest way to gain rating. Every position here comes from a real game and has one clear best move to find. Work through forks, pins, skewers and mating nets, filter by your level, and build the pattern recognition that wins games.

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