Chess puzzles
Pick a tactic to practise, or a set that matches your rating. Every puzzle comes from a real game and has a hint and a full solution.
Puzzles by rating
Checkmate patterns
- Mate in 1 puzzles
- Mate in 2 puzzles
- Mate in 3 puzzles
- Mate in 4 puzzles
- Back-rank mate puzzles
- Smothered mate puzzles
- Arabian mate puzzles
- Anastasia’s mate puzzles
- Hook mate puzzles
- Epaulette mate puzzles
- Opera mate puzzles
- Pillsbury’s mate puzzles
- Double-bishop mate puzzles
- Dovetail mate puzzles
Tactics
- Fork puzzles
- Pin puzzles
- Skewer puzzles
- Discovered attack puzzles
- Discovered check puzzles
- Double check puzzles
- Deflection puzzles
- Attraction (decoy) puzzles
- Clearance puzzles
- Interference puzzles
- Intermezzo (zwischenzug) puzzles
- X-ray attack puzzles
- Capturing the defender puzzles
- Hanging piece puzzles
- Trapped piece puzzles
- Sacrifice puzzles
- Quiet move puzzles
- Defensive move puzzles
- Zugzwang puzzles
- Promotion puzzles
- Underpromotion puzzles
- En passant puzzles
- Attacking f2/f7 puzzles
- Exposed king puzzles
- Kingside attack puzzles
- Queenside attack puzzles
- Advanced pawn puzzles
Endgames
- Pawn endgame puzzles
- Rook endgame puzzles
- Bishop endgame puzzles
- Knight endgame puzzles
- Queen endgame puzzles
- Queen and rook endgame puzzles