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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 10129–10152 of 22530 matching records

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Puzzle 07gRJ

Rating 1632 crushingkingsideAttacklong
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Puzzle 0A0yb

Rating 1632 crushingexposedKingfork
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Puzzle 0AiOE

Rating 1632 advantagemiddlegameshort
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Puzzle 0AoUC

Rating 1632 advantagelongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0Dp8t

Rating 1632 advantagelongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0Fiym

Rating 1632 crushingintermezzomiddlegame
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Puzzle 0M8KE

Rating 1632 matemateIn1middlegame
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Puzzle 0U0uk

Rating 1632 advantagelongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0Uctn

Rating 1632 crushinghangingPieceintermezzo
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Puzzle 01Y2x

Rating 1633 kingsideAttackmatemateIn2
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Puzzle 0BJlP

Rating 1633 matemateIn2middlegame
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Puzzle 0GlZG

Rating 1633 crushinghangingPiecelong
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Puzzle 0L37i

Rating 1633 advantageforkmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0NQWh

Rating 1633 matemateIn2middlegame
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Puzzle 0OGhW

Rating 1633 advantagemiddlegameshort
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Puzzle 0QanQ

Rating 1633 advantagemiddlegameshort
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Puzzle 0QLyg

Rating 1633 advantageintermezzomiddlegame
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Puzzle 0QUD9

Rating 1633 advantageattractionkingsideAttack
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Puzzle 0Ts3B

Rating 1633 crushingdefensiveMovehangingPiece
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Puzzle 0TuhN

Rating 1633 advantageclearancedeflection
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Puzzle 05jJv

Rating 1634 advantageexposedKingfork
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Puzzle 08iJP

Rating 1634 clearancecrushingfork
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Puzzle 0E2D7

Rating 1634 advantagemiddlegameshort
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Puzzle 0Nj6q

Rating 1634 discoveredCheckdoubleCheckkingsideAttack
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