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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 9889–9912 of 22530 matching records

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Puzzle 05kaR

Rating 1612 discoveredAttackdiscoveredCheckkingsideAttack
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Puzzle 06cAQ

Rating 1612 advantagedefensiveMovehangingPiece
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Puzzle 07tvG

Rating 1612 advantagecapturingDefendermaster
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Puzzle 08zFA

Rating 1612 advantagelongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0Ag5y

Rating 1612 advantagelongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0DmLw

Rating 1612 advantagemiddlegameshort
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Puzzle 0ET7J

Rating 1612 capturingDefendercrushingmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0GNTu

Rating 1612 crushinglongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0KUWY

Rating 1612 matemateIn1middlegame
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Puzzle 0MsC9

Rating 1612 advantagediscoveredAttackmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0N6Eq

Rating 1612 clearancecrushinglong
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Puzzle 0ONbI

Rating 1612 hangingPiecematemateIn2
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Puzzle 01wG2

Rating 1613 advantagelongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0399J

Rating 1613 matemateIn2middlegame
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Puzzle 07Wce

Rating 1613 discoveredCheckdoubleCheckmate
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Puzzle 097Dt

Rating 1613 advantagecapturingDefenderintermezzo
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Puzzle 09fyL

Rating 1613 crushingdeflectionlong
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Puzzle 09vvQ

Rating 1613 matemateIn2middlegame
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Puzzle 0C9WJ

Rating 1613 matemateIn1middlegame
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Puzzle 0DGue

Rating 1613 advancedPawnadvantagemaster
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Puzzle 0HE05

Rating 1613 advantagediscoveredAttackmaster
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Puzzle 0Hi00

Rating 1613 advantagediscoveredAttackmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0Ix9j

Rating 1613 crushingdiscoveredAttackmiddlegame
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More puzzle themes: Advanced pawn · Attacks on f2 / f7 · Attraction · Back-rank mate · Bishop endgame tactics · Capture the defender · Clearance · Defensive move · Deflection · Discovered attack · All themes