Kingside attack Puzzles: Advanced Level

By the numbers

kingside attack puzzles at advanced level: the numbers

There are 61,819 kingside attack puzzles at advanced level, solved 83,616,446 times in total. The median rating is 2229.

Often combined with

Middlegame tactics · 55,945Sacrifice · 21,611Attraction · 12,519Pin · 9,198Discovered attack · 7,958Deflection · 6,537Checkmate · 6,260Discovered check · 5,119

Which openings produce them?

Sicilian Defence · 2,937French Defence · 1,528Italian Game · 1,473Queen's Pawn Game · 1,134Caro–Kann Defence · 817Ruy Lopez · 730Scandinavian Defense · 728Indian Defence · 624

Counts computed from the full puzzle set.

How the solutions work · counted by a rules engine

What a typical kingside attack solution looks like

Sample: 2,000 kingside attack puzzles at advanced level (3.2% of all 61,819).

22.6% need 2 solver moves, 48.4% need 3 solver moves, 19.6% need 4 solver moves, 9.4% need 5 or more solver moves. Median rating: 2169 for the shortest solutions, 2462 for the longest.

27.1% open with a queen move. The first move captures in 62.9% and gives check in 60%; 9.3% end in checkmate, 54.5% involve a sacrifice, 56.5% have White to move.

How many moves does the solver need?

Which piece plays the key move?

What does the solver win?

Material balance along the whole line, counting every capture by both sides (pawn 1, minor piece 3, rook 5, queen 9):

How much is left on the board?

How it is counted: every puzzle in the sample is replayed move by move with a chess rules engine. A sacrifice means a piece that is captured on the very next ply and was worth more than what it captured itself (pawn 1, minor piece 3, rook 5, queen 9). Sample of 2,000 puzzles. Percentages are shares of the sample.

Where it happens

Where the key move lands

Where the solver’s first move ends, drawn from their own side (rank 1 is their back rank). Busiest squares: f7 (11.7%), h7 (11%), g7 (10%), f6 (9.3%), g6 (8%).

Counted from the same 2,000-puzzle sample. Squares under 1% are left blank.