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Clearance Chess Puzzles

Search 49,500 locally indexed real-game positions, narrow them by motif, difficulty or rating, then play each stored tactical line directly on the board without an upstream connection.

892 real-game puzzles in this collection

What is a clearance?

A clearance move vacates a square or line that one of your own pieces needs, often with tempo. The clearing piece may even sacrifice itself so the follow-up lands.

How to spot it

When a winning idea fails only because your own piece is in the way, look for the most forcing way to move it — ideally a move that also checks or captures.

What this set trains

Clearance sets teach coordination: seeing not just where pieces attack, but how they can make room for each other.

Foundation: 61Developing: 110Challenging: 169Advanced: 552

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24 shown from 49500 locally materialized records.

Showing 313–336 of 892 matching records

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Puzzle 0FT9h

Rating 1937 advantageclearanceendgame
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Puzzle 07itL

Rating 1938 advantageclearancelong
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Puzzle 0Qxiv

Rating 1938 clearancecrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0VFnO

Rating 1938 advantageclearancekingsideAttack
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Puzzle 0Kkla

Rating 1941 clearancekingsideAttackmaster
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Puzzle 0BMlM

Rating 1949 advantageclearancelong
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Puzzle 04KkX

Rating 1950 clearancecrushingintermezzo
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Puzzle 0N8iB

Rating 1950 clearancecrushingmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0XZI0

Rating 1952 advantageclearancemaster
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Puzzle 01xmi

Rating 1953 clearancecrushingfork
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Puzzle 06RVF

Rating 1956 advantageclearancemaster
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Puzzle 08nf9

Rating 1959 clearancecrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0ScEb

Rating 1963 advantageclearancemiddlegame
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Puzzle 0KqSZ

Rating 1969 advantageattractionclearance
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Puzzle 0WXqd

Rating 1969 advantageclearanceintermezzo
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Puzzle 06s4Z

Rating 1973 clearancecrushingmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0X2KI

Rating 1976 advantageclearancelong
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Puzzle 0Vdzt

Rating 1977 advantageclearancelong
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Puzzle 0Hkl1

Rating 1979 clearancecrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0KE1r

Rating 1982 clearancecrushinglong
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Puzzle 03HqP

Rating 1983 advantageclearanceendgame
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