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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 889–912 of 1653 matching records

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Puzzle 0J5T0

Rating 1679 advantagehangingPiecelong
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Puzzle 07quM

Rating 1680 crushinghangingPieceintermezzo
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Puzzle 0NCpO

Rating 1680 crushinghangingPiecemiddlegame
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Puzzle 0UEf6

Rating 1680 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 05VYE

Rating 1682 crushinghangingPiecemiddlegame
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Puzzle 0SiFU

Rating 1683 advantageforkhangingPiece
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Puzzle 08COQ

Rating 1684 crushingendgamehangingPiece
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Puzzle 0FO0N

Rating 1684 advantageendgamehangingPiece
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Puzzle 0Nsd3

Rating 1684 crushinghangingPiecemiddlegame
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Puzzle 06z05

Rating 1685 crushinghangingPiecemiddlegame
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Puzzle 0J2js

Rating 1685 advantagehangingPiecelong
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Puzzle 0PPkI

Rating 1686 advantagedefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 04UcL

Rating 1691 advantagehangingPiecemaster
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Puzzle 06iSl

Rating 1691 crushinghangingPiecemiddlegame
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Puzzle 0LlYi

Rating 1696 advantagehangingPiecemiddlegame
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Puzzle 0KWv7

Rating 1697 advantagehangingPiecelong
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Puzzle 07h4W

Rating 1700 crushingendgamehangingPiece
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Puzzle 0MjwT

Rating 1700 endgameequalityhangingPiece
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Puzzle 06ZHc

Rating 1701 crushingendgamehangingPiece
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Puzzle 0E9dd

Rating 1702 advantagehangingPieceopening
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Puzzle 0Usje

Rating 1704 advantagehangingPiecemiddlegame
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Puzzle 06cy6

Rating 1707 advantageendgamehangingPiece
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Puzzle 07dRY

Rating 1709 crushinghangingPiecelong
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Puzzle 0PJPk

Rating 1710 advantagehangingPiecelong
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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