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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 12193–12216 of 22530 matching records

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Puzzle 0UMfF

Rating 1815 crushingdiscoveredAttackdiscoveredCheck
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Puzzle 0Vy8z

Rating 1815 advantagelongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 06gWq

Rating 1816 advantagemiddlegameshort
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Puzzle 0Nkkg

Rating 1816 advantagemiddlegamesacrifice
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Puzzle 0PKwP

Rating 1816 advantagecollinearMovediscoveredAttack
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Puzzle 0Qtji

Rating 1816 attractioncrushingfork
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Puzzle 0UTtJ

Rating 1816 advantagemiddlegameshort
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Puzzle 0ZO9F

Rating 1816 advantagemiddlegameshort
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Puzzle 013zx

Rating 1817 crushingmiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 01B8h

Rating 1817 advantagelongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 02QAj

Rating 1817 crushingdeflectionfork
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Puzzle 02Tdb

Rating 1817 cornerMatematemateIn2
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Puzzle 03AHv

Rating 1817 advantagemiddlegameshort
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Puzzle 04fjs

Rating 1817 advantagedeflectionmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0BmIh

Rating 1817 advantagemiddlegameshort
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Puzzle 0ET29

Rating 1817 matemateIn2middlegame
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Puzzle 0G0YL

Rating 1817 advantagemiddlegameshort
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Puzzle 0H3rQ

Rating 1817 advantagemiddlegamesacrifice
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Puzzle 0HZtS

Rating 1817 advantagehangingPiecemiddlegame
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Puzzle 0JoH8

Rating 1817 matemateIn2middlegame
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Puzzle 06nCm

Rating 1818 advantagemiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 076jI

Rating 1818 advantagelongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0I9qO

Rating 1818 crushinglongmiddlegame
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