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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 10513–10536 of 22530 matching records

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Puzzle 0D7H3

Rating 1663 crushingkingsideAttacklong
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Puzzle 0DvMD

Rating 1663 crushingmiddlegameshort
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Puzzle 0F1e0

Rating 1663 crushinglongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0Glte

Rating 1663 capturingDefendercrushinglong
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Puzzle 0IVFa

Rating 1663 advantagedefensiveMovehangingPiece
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Puzzle 0MZWk

Rating 1663 crushingmiddlegameshort
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Puzzle 0NQ3I

Rating 1663 advantageattractionmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0O6ac

Rating 1663 crushingforkhangingPiece
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Puzzle 0IIO6

Rating 1664 advantagelongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0Ivvg

Rating 1664 crushingmiddlegameshort
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Puzzle 0QNn0

Rating 1664 capturingDefendercrushingmiddlegame
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Puzzle 021Un

Rating 1665 advantageforkintermezzo
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Puzzle 0BcyA

Rating 1665 crushingdiscoveredAttackkingsideAttack
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Puzzle 0M2hg

Rating 1665 advantagemiddlegameshort
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Puzzle 0P1fn

Rating 1665 crushingdefensiveMovemiddlegame
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Puzzle 0P6NI

Rating 1665 crushingmiddlegameshort
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Puzzle 0RuyQ

Rating 1665 advantageforkmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0SITb

Rating 1665 anastasiaMateattractionkingsideAttack
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Puzzle 0SxCY

Rating 1665 advantageattractionfork
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Puzzle 0UCa3

Rating 1665 advantagedefensiveMovemiddlegame
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Puzzle 08MjH

Rating 1666 capturingDefendercrushingkingsideAttack
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