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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 12073–12096 of 22530 matching records

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Puzzle 0NcpM

Rating 1805 advantagemiddlegameshort
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Puzzle 0P8f2

Rating 1805 matemateIn2middlegame
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Puzzle 0Px9p

Rating 1805 crushinglongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0SmcZ

Rating 1805 advantagekingsideAttackmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0VeYN

Rating 1805 advantagemastermiddlegame
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Puzzle 0X6V2

Rating 1805 kingsideAttackmatemateIn2
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Puzzle 01kKD

Rating 1806 crushingdefensiveMovemiddlegame
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Puzzle 055N4

Rating 1806 advancedPawnexposedKingfork
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Puzzle 05XHa

Rating 1806 advantagemiddlegameshort
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Puzzle 0842c

Rating 1806 crushingdeflectionkingsideAttack
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Puzzle 08eDg

Rating 1806 crushingmiddlegameshort
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Puzzle 0A9Zd

Rating 1806 attractionmatemateIn2
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Puzzle 0AyJv

Rating 1806 matemateIn2middlegame
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Puzzle 0KV6w

Rating 1806 kingsideAttackmastermate
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Puzzle 0NiP4

Rating 1806 crushingmastermiddlegame
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Puzzle 0NjuL

Rating 1806 crushingmiddlegameshort
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Puzzle 0U6Kw

Rating 1806 crushingmiddlegameshort
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Puzzle 0VJHO

Rating 1806 crushingdiscoveredAttackdiscoveredCheck
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Puzzle 0XVeE

Rating 1806 crushingmastermiddlegame
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Puzzle 0ZF8z

Rating 1806 advantagemiddlegameshort
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Puzzle 00L1Y

Rating 1807 advantagelongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 00ttk

Rating 1807 advantagemiddlegameshort
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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