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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Rating 1130
matemateIn2middlegame
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Rating 1131
middlegame
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Rating 1131
matemateIn1middlegame
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Rating 1131
crushingkingsideAttackmiddlegame
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Rating 1131
advantageforklong
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Rating 1131
advantagemiddlegameshort
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Rating 1131
crushingforkmiddlegame
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Rating 1131
backRankMatelongmate
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Rating 1131
matemateIn1middlegame
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Rating 1132
matemateIn1middlegame
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Rating 1132
backRankMatelongmate
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Rating 1132
kingsideAttackmatemateIn2
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Rating 1132
advantagedefensiveMovemiddlegame
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Rating 1132
crushingforkmiddlegame
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Rating 1132
matemateIn1middlegame
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Rating 1132
matemateIn1middlegame
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Rating 1132
kingsideAttackmatemateIn2
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Rating 1132
kingsideAttackmatemateIn2
foundation
Rating 1132
crushingforkmiddlegame
foundation
Rating 1133
crushingdefensiveMovemiddlegame
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Rating 1133
kingsideAttackmatemateIn2
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Rating 1133
clearancemastermate
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Rating 1133
matemateIn1middlegame
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Rating 1133
matemateIn2middlegame
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