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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 9985–10008 of 22530 matching records

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Puzzle 0Odoh

Rating 1620 crushinglongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0Qc5x

Rating 1620 advantagedeflectionmiddlegame
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Puzzle 00Cqg

Rating 1621 advantagedefensiveMovehangingPiece
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Puzzle 03oNr

Rating 1621 crushingdiscoveredAttacklong
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Puzzle 04eUN

Rating 1621 crushingdeflectionkingsideAttack
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Puzzle 06oAC

Rating 1621 matemateIn2middlegame
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Puzzle 07URF

Rating 1621 crushinglongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 09D3I

Rating 1621 crushingexposedKingfork
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Puzzle 0AQRf

Rating 1621 epauletteMatekingsideAttackmate
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Puzzle 0AYQp

Rating 1621 advantageclearancedeflection
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Puzzle 0B6s8

Rating 1621 advantagehangingPieceintermezzo
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Puzzle 0GE1g

Rating 1621 crushingmastermiddlegame
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Puzzle 0H1fJ

Rating 1621 advantagedeflectionmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0JUxu

Rating 1621 advantagemiddlegamequeensideAttack
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Puzzle 0MPdL

Rating 1621 deflectionkingsideAttackmate
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Puzzle 0NVU3

Rating 1621 advantagemiddlegameshort
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Puzzle 0OEkV

Rating 1621 advantagelongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0OtRO

Rating 1621 crushingmastermiddlegame
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Puzzle 0Pfpk

Rating 1621 crushinglongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0PqW4

Rating 1621 matemateIn1middlegame
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Puzzle 0QhL0

Rating 1621 crushingexposedKingkingsideAttack
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Puzzle 03BrC

Rating 1622 advantagemiddlegameshort
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Puzzle 0AA40

Rating 1622 capturingDefendercrushingmiddlegame
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