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Hanging piece 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.

1653 real-game puzzles in this collection

What is a hanging piece?

A hanging piece is simply an enemy unit left undefended or under-defended. The tactic is direct: attack it faster than it can be saved, or capture it outright.

How to spot it

Every move, scan all enemy pieces and count their defenders. Puzzle positions hide the loose piece behind a distracting threat or an inviting but inferior alternative.

What this set trains

This set trains the discipline of the loose-piece scan — the cheapest rating points available to any improving player.

Foundation: 500Developing: 315Challenging: 317Advanced: 521

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24 shown from 49500 locally materialized records.

Showing 409–432 of 1653 matching records

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Puzzle 0BaKn

Rating 1048 hangingPiecematemateIn1
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Puzzle 04Mis

Rating 1049 advantagehangingPiecemiddlegame
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Puzzle 0ISpP

Rating 1061 advantagehangingPiecelong
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Puzzle 0ESj6

Rating 1065 hangingPiecematemateIn1
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Puzzle 043Nu

Rating 1069 crushinghangingPiecemiddlegame
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Puzzle 03Nhj

Rating 1071 advantageendgamehangingPiece
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Puzzle 05ngU

Rating 1071 advantagehangingPiecemiddlegame
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Puzzle 00BJm

Rating 1074 advantageforkhangingPiece
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Puzzle 0HGzz

Rating 1077 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0OElv

Rating 1080 crushinghangingPieceintermezzo
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Puzzle 06JrE

Rating 1081 advantagehangingPiecelong
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Puzzle 0Foaj

Rating 1083 crushingendgamehangingPiece
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Puzzle 01pl8

Rating 1090 backRankMatedeflectionhangingPiece
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Puzzle 087yb

Rating 1095 crushingendgamehangingPiece
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Puzzle 0Are1

Rating 1096 advantagehangingPiecemaster
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Puzzle 0CmIV

Rating 1098 advantagedefensiveMovehangingPiece
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Puzzle 06yZ3

Rating 1099 advantageendgamehangingPiece
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Puzzle 0LeZV

Rating 1101 crushingendgamehangingPiece
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Puzzle 0F9iD

Rating 1103 advantageendgamehangingPiece
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Puzzle 02l1m

Rating 1104 hangingPiecekingsideAttackmate
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Puzzle 0B2Xm

Rating 1105 hangingPiecematemateIn1
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Puzzle 0HnRJ

Rating 1108 crushingforkhangingPiece
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Puzzle 00l3p

Rating 1111 endgamehangingPiecemate
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More puzzle themes: Advanced pawn · Attacks on f2 / f7 · Attraction · Back-rank mate · Bishop endgame tactics · Capture the defender · Clearance · Defensive move · Deflection · Discovered attack · All themes