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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 11809–11832 of 22530 matching records

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Puzzle 0SeQ2

Rating 1781 crushingmiddlegameshort
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Puzzle 0TH08

Rating 1781 crushingdeflectioninterference
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Puzzle 00bri

Rating 1782 advantageforkintermezzo
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Puzzle 05DkG

Rating 1782 crushinglongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0AqU8

Rating 1782 advantagelongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0Fi5f

Rating 1782 advantagediscoveredAttackdiscoveredCheck
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Puzzle 0FNHK

Rating 1782 advantagelongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0RZYA

Rating 1782 advantagelongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0Uglf

Rating 1782 advantagemiddlegameveryLong
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Puzzle 00XXM

Rating 1783 advantagelongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 01HoZ

Rating 1783 matemateIn1middlegame
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Puzzle 0BxoK

Rating 1783 advantagedeflectionexposedKing
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Puzzle 0FIp8

Rating 1783 crushingmiddlegameshort
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Puzzle 0FLVf

Rating 1783 crushingmiddlegameshort
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Puzzle 0JigZ

Rating 1783 advantagedefensiveMovehangingPiece
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Puzzle 0MPm9

Rating 1783 advantagedefensiveMovehangingPiece
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Puzzle 0QGx0

Rating 1783 advantagediscoveredAttacklong
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Puzzle 00008

Rating 1784 crushinghangingPiecelong
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Puzzle 00hxr

Rating 1784 advantagehangingPiecelong
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Puzzle 02bhz

Rating 1784 crushinglongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 07MXx

Rating 1784 advantagemiddlegameshort
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Puzzle 08mIO

Rating 1784 advantagemastermiddlegame
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Puzzle 0D1gy

Rating 1784 crushingkingsideAttackmiddlegame
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