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Practice tac clearing beginner with this printable chess puzzle. Perfect for classroom or home use!

How to Use This Worksheet

  • Print: Click the print button to get a clean printout perfect for students
  • Practice: Complete the practice exercises
  • Check Answers: Click "Show Answers" to verify responses
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Learning Benefits

This chess puzzle builds calculation, pattern recognition, and tactical decision-making.

Clearance puzzles from real games · Foundation level

Three positions taken from rated games, each shown from the side to move. Solve them before reading the answers below; each answer lists the whole line, the opponent’s replies included.

Puzzle 1: White to move, rating 977   Puzzle 2: Black to move, rating 1077   Puzzle 3: White to move, rating 1082

  1. Puzzle 1: White to move · rating 977
  2. Puzzle 2: Black to move · rating 1077
  3. Puzzle 3: White to move · rating 1082

Answers

  1. Puzzle 1: Nf6+ Qxf6 Qh7#
  2. Puzzle 2: Nxf3+ Bxf3 Bh2+ Kh1 Rxd1
  3. Puzzle 3: Nxd7 Bxd7 Re7+ Kf6 Rxd7

Across 2,000 clearance puzzles at this level, 65.4% take 2 moves to solve, and the key move is most often made by a knight (54.6%).

How to use this chess puzzle set

Best for tactical warmups, logic enrichment, chess clubs, and printable problem-solving packets.

  • Print the puzzle, solve without hints first, then use solution support to review the reasoning.
  • Move from riddles and wordplay into checkmate, tactics, endgames, knight tours, logic, and mixed puzzle sets.
  • Use the previous and next set links to stay inside the same page family before jumping to broader hubs.

Answer key policy

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Same-family next steps

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