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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.

Showing 9745–9768 of 22530 matching records

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Puzzle 0QAnF

Rating 1601 advancedPawncrushingfork
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Puzzle 0R4uD

Rating 1601 crushingdiscoveredAttackmiddlegame
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Puzzle 00bnu

Rating 1602 advantageintermezzomiddlegame
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Puzzle 00u3V

Rating 1602 advantagemiddlegameshort
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Puzzle 07OuM

Rating 1602 advantageclearancediscoveredAttack
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Puzzle 07ZOz

Rating 1602 epauletteMatemastermate
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Puzzle 09IR3

Rating 1602 advantagemiddlegamequietMove
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Puzzle 09UnS

Rating 1602 advantagelongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0AAwU

Rating 1602 crushingmastermiddlegame
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Puzzle 0C81B

Rating 1602 matemateIn1middlegame
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Puzzle 0IbN4

Rating 1602 matemateIn4middlegame
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Puzzle 0LdRN

Rating 1602 crushingmiddlegameshort
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Puzzle 0LRTj

Rating 1602 advantagemiddlegameshort
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Puzzle 0MNgK

Rating 1602 crushingmiddlegameshort
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Puzzle 0OpDb

Rating 1602 crushingdiscoveredAttackfork
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Puzzle 0Rlet

Rating 1602 crushinglongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0Se92

Rating 1602 advantagelongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0Suqq

Rating 1602 advantagedeflectionlong
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Puzzle 0Aozg

Rating 1603 attractioncrushingexposedKing
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Puzzle 0BN1T

Rating 1603 crushinginterferencemiddlegame
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