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Practice tac promotion expert 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
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Learning Benefits

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

Promotion puzzles from real games · Advanced 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 2192   Puzzle 2: White to move, rating 2353   Puzzle 3: Black to move, rating 2663

  1. Puzzle 1: White to move · rating 2192
  2. Puzzle 2: White to move · rating 2353
  3. Puzzle 3: Black to move · rating 2663

Answers

  1. Puzzle 1: dxc8=Q Rxd2 Qe6+ Qf7 Qxf7+
  2. Puzzle 2: g6+ Ke7 f6+ Kxf6 g7 Kf5 g8=Q
  3. Puzzle 3: Rh3 Qf2 c1=Q Qxd4 Qxe1 Qh8+ Rxh8

Across 2,000 promotion puzzles at this level, 37% take 5+ moves to solve, and the key move is most often made by a pawn (49.6%).

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.
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