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
foundation
Rating 735
matemateIn1middlegame
foundation
Rating 735
kingsideAttackmatemateIn1
foundation
Rating 735
endgamematemateIn1
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Rating 735
kingsideAttackmatemateIn1
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Rating 736
kingsideAttackmatemateIn1
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Rating 736
mastermatemateIn1
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Rating 736
matemateIn1middlegame
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Rating 736
endgamematemateIn1
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Rating 736
arabianMateendgamemate
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Rating 736
endgamematemateIn1
foundation
Rating 736
matemateIn1middlegame
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Rating 736
matemateIn1middlegame
foundation
Rating 736
matemateIn1oneMove
foundation
Rating 736
endgamematemateIn1
foundation
Rating 736
attackingF2F7matemateIn1
foundation
Rating 737
kingsideAttackmatemateIn1
foundation
Rating 737
mastermatemateIn1
foundation
Rating 737
kingsideAttackmatemateIn1
foundation
Rating 737
endgamemastermate
foundation
Rating 737
matemateIn1middlegame
foundation
Rating 737
matemateIn1oneMove
foundation
Rating 737
kingsideAttackmatemateIn1
foundation
Rating 737
matemateIn1oneMove
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Rating 737
mastermatemateIn1
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