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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 1081–1104 of 1653 matching records

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Puzzle 0SXBl

Rating 1931 advantagehangingPieceintermezzo
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Puzzle 0UTXj

Rating 1931 advantagehangingPieceintermezzo
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Puzzle 0GHzc

Rating 1933 advantagehangingPiecemaster
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Puzzle 0UrXU

Rating 1933 advantageforkhangingPiece
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Puzzle 03NGi

Rating 1935 advantagehangingPieceopening
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Puzzle 08KSb

Rating 1942 crushingforkhangingPiece
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Puzzle 00xyk

Rating 1943 advantagehangingPiecemiddlegame
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Puzzle 0LMjY

Rating 1943 advantagehangingPiecemiddlegame
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Puzzle 0LzPe

Rating 1943 advantagehangingPiecelong
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Puzzle 0NmRM

Rating 1948 advantagehangingPiecelong
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Puzzle 038eV

Rating 1949 advantagehangingPiecelong
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Puzzle 05GRU

Rating 1949 advantagedefensiveMovehangingPiece
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Puzzle 0Y8b4

Rating 1949 bishopEndgamecrushingendgame
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Puzzle 0P0Kr

Rating 1952 advantagehangingPiecemaster
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Puzzle 01M1X

Rating 1954 crushinghangingPiecemiddlegame
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Puzzle 0H8uD

Rating 1954 advantagedefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 00lJm

Rating 1955 advantagehangingPiecemiddlegame
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Puzzle 0GAMZ

Rating 1956 advantagedefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 02xLN

Rating 1961 advantagehangingPiecelong
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Puzzle 0UGb8

Rating 1961 advantagehangingPiecelong
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Puzzle 03WmP

Rating 1963 advantageendgamehangingPiece
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Puzzle 052zB

Rating 1964 crushingdefensiveMoveendgame
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Puzzle 0Szua

Rating 1966 advantagehangingPiecemiddlegame
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Puzzle 0DuBa

Rating 1968 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