Queenside attack Puzzles: Developing Level

By the numbers

queenside attack puzzles at developing level: the numbers

There are 21,712 queenside attack puzzles at developing level, solved 68,426,926 times in total. The median rating is 1383.

Often combined with

Middlegame tactics · 17,785Checkmate · 12,238Mate in 2 · 7,493Endgame tactics · 3,390Sacrifice · 3,136Mate in 1 · 2,694Pin · 2,319Discovered attack · 1,985

Which openings produce them?

Sicilian Defence · 889Scandinavian Defense · 686Queen's Pawn Game · 401Caro–Kann Defence · 338French Defence · 298Scotch Game · 201Indian Defence · 185Italian Game · 151

Counts computed from the full puzzle set.

How the solutions work · counted by a rules engine

What a typical queenside attack solution looks like

Sample: 2,000 queenside attack puzzles at developing level (9.2% of all 21,712).

11.4% need 1 solver move, 60% need 2 solver moves, 25.4% need 3 solver moves, 2.8% need 4 solver moves. Median rating: 1334 for the shortest solutions, 1433 for the longest.

44.2% open with a queen move. The first move captures in 50.6% and gives check in 91.6%; 55.7% end in checkmate, 33.2% involve a sacrifice, 47.4% 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: a6 (10.7%), c7 (10.5%), c6 (10%), a8 (8.6%), a7 (8.1%).

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