5511 real-game puzzles in this collection
What is a mate in 1?
One move ends the game. The challenge is pure board vision: seeing the single square where check meets no escape.
How to spot it
Scan every check systematically — queen first, then rooks, bishops, knights, pawns. One of them covers every flight square.
What this set trains
Speed and accuracy drills for beginners, warm-ups for everyone else. The foundation of all mating vision.
Foundation: 4630Developing: 722Challenging: 154Advanced: 5
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Rating 721
matemateIn1oneMove
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Rating 721
bodenMatematemateIn1
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Rating 721
backRankMateendgamemate
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Rating 722
backRankMateendgamemate
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Rating 722
endgameepauletteMatemaster
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Rating 722
hangingPiecekingsideAttackmate
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Rating 722
matemateIn1middlegame
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Rating 722
endgamematemateIn1
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Rating 722
epauletteMatematemateIn1
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Rating 722
kingsideAttackmatemateIn1
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Rating 722
matemateIn1middlegame
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Rating 722
matemateIn1middlegame
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Rating 722
kingsideAttackmatemateIn1
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Rating 722
kingsideAttackmatemateIn1
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Rating 722
kingsideAttackmatemateIn1
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Rating 722
bodenMatematemateIn1
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Rating 723
endgamemastermate
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Rating 723
hangingPiecekingsideAttackmate
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Rating 723
kingsideAttackmastermate
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Rating 723
backRankMateendgamemate
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Rating 723
attackingF2F7matemateIn1
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Rating 723
bodenMatematemateIn1
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Rating 723
endgamemastermate
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Rating 723
mastermatemateIn1
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