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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 11761–11784 of 22530 matching records

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Puzzle 04t9W

Rating 1777 advantagelongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 06uAR

Rating 1777 advantageintermezzomiddlegame
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Puzzle 0AaUW

Rating 1777 attractiondiscoveredCheckdoubleCheck
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Puzzle 0IPii

Rating 1777 advantagedeflectionlong
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Puzzle 0JtdZ

Rating 1777 advantageclearancediscoveredAttack
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Puzzle 0N3m9

Rating 1777 crushinghangingPiecemiddlegame
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Puzzle 01G4i

Rating 1778 discoveredAttackmatemateIn2
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Puzzle 01IW8

Rating 1778 matemateIn2middlegame
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Puzzle 01j9y

Rating 1778 advantagecapturingDefenderkingsideAttack
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Puzzle 07NHb

Rating 1778 advantagemiddlegameshort
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Puzzle 0EeKg

Rating 1778 crushinghangingPiecemiddlegame
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Puzzle 0GEKT

Rating 1778 attractioncrushingdeflection
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Puzzle 0Hgnb

Rating 1778 advantagediscoveredAttackdiscoveredCheck
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Puzzle 0NDvC

Rating 1778 advantagemiddlegameshort
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Puzzle 0Nga2

Rating 1778 advantagekingsideAttackmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0NWld

Rating 1778 crushingmiddlegameshort
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Puzzle 0Omyv

Rating 1778 crushingdiscoveredAttackdiscoveredCheck
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Puzzle 0PDvQ

Rating 1778 crushingmiddlegamesacrifice
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Puzzle 0S8JO

Rating 1778 advantagecapturingDefenderlong
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Puzzle 00rKj

Rating 1779 kingsideAttackmatemateIn2
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Puzzle 01QSt

Rating 1779 crushinglongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 04TLu

Rating 1779 advantagelongmiddlegame
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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