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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 433–456 of 1653 matching records

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Puzzle 053LP

Rating 1111 advantagehangingPiecemiddlegame
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Puzzle 0Dieq

Rating 1112 hangingPiecekingsideAttackmate
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Puzzle 0J02L

Rating 1119 backRankMatehangingPiecemate
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Puzzle 0ASZf

Rating 1121 crushingendgameexposedKing
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Puzzle 0NqwM

Rating 1122 advantagehangingPiecemiddlegame
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Puzzle 0NfSK

Rating 1123 advantageendgamehangingPiece
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Puzzle 0DKRj

Rating 1124 advantagehangingPiecemaster
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Puzzle 07San

Rating 1125 hangingPiecematemateIn1
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Puzzle 0Eh63

Rating 1126 crushingendgamehangingPiece
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Puzzle 002bK

Rating 1129 advantageendgamehangingPiece
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Puzzle 0Hxu5

Rating 1129 backRankMatehangingPiecemate
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Puzzle 0JDnk

Rating 1134 crushingendgamehangingPiece
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Puzzle 0KCrx

Rating 1134 hangingPiecekingsideAttackmate
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Puzzle 0071K

Rating 1135 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 05kdD

Rating 1136 advancedPawncrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0BhwW

Rating 1138 advantageendgamehangingPiece
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Puzzle 0CCNZ

Rating 1139 hangingPiecematemateIn1
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Puzzle 08CdO

Rating 1140 backRankMatehangingPiecemate
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Puzzle 0GWOP

Rating 1140 backRankMateendgamehangingPiece
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Puzzle 0DdGz

Rating 1141 advantageendgamehangingPiece
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Puzzle 0Mmnz

Rating 1141 crushingendgameexposedKing
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Puzzle 02vYV

Rating 1143 advantagehangingPiecemaster
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Puzzle 05nFU

Rating 1146 crushinghangingPiecemiddlegame
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Puzzle 08qo3

Rating 1146 advantagehangingPiecemiddlegame
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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