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Middlegame tactics 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.

22530 real-game puzzles in this collection

What is a middlegame tactics?

The core of practical chess: full boards where combinations grow out of piece activity, weak squares and king exposure.

How to spot it

Tactics follow strategy — badly placed pieces, weak back ranks and loose pawns are the precursors. Scan for them and calculate the forcing moves they invite.

What this set trains

The broadest training diet available: every motif, in its natural habitat.

Foundation: 5550Developing: 4168Challenging: 4518Advanced: 8294

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24 shown from 49500 locally materialized records.

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Puzzle 0AKEI

Rating 1082 matemateIn1middlegame

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Puzzle 0HEX7

Rating 1082 kingsideAttackmastermate

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Puzzle 0HH1E

Rating 1082 deflectionmatemateIn2

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Puzzle 05bPj

Rating 1083 clearancekingsideAttackmate

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Puzzle 06F8i

Rating 1083 advantagekingsideAttackmiddlegame

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Puzzle 08SGZ

Rating 1083 matemateIn2middlegame

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Puzzle 09fhG

Rating 1083 crushingmiddlegameshort

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Puzzle 0ITMG

Rating 1083 advantagemiddlegameshort

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Puzzle 0LLvI

Rating 1083 matemateIn1middlegame

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Puzzle 0O2Pz

Rating 1083 kingsideAttackmatemateIn2

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Puzzle 0009B

Rating 1084 advantagemiddlegameshort

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Puzzle 0CRzD

Rating 1084 matemateIn1middlegame

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Puzzle 0Gjmm

Rating 1084 advantageforkmiddlegame

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Puzzle 0IjIT

Rating 1084 advantagediscoveredAttackkingsideAttack

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Puzzle 0NsZ4

Rating 1084 matemateIn2middlegame

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Puzzle 03yzm

Rating 1085 attackingF2F7matemateIn1

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Puzzle 04sGR

Rating 1085 hookMatematemateIn1

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Puzzle 06ACd

Rating 1085 advantagemiddlegameshort

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Puzzle 07Qgv

Rating 1085 longmatemateIn3

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Puzzle 0AALu

Rating 1085 crushingmastermiddlegame

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Puzzle 0CzTi

Rating 1085 deflectionforkmate

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Puzzle 0Guoq

Rating 1085 advantageforkmiddlegame

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Puzzle 0H7M7

Rating 1085 crushingforklong

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Puzzle 028b4

Rating 1086 attackingF2F7matemateIn1

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