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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 12889–12912 of 22530 matching records

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Puzzle 0C2a5

Rating 1880 discoveredCheckdoubleCheckmate
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Puzzle 0Wpo4

Rating 1880 crushingmiddlegamequeensideAttack
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Puzzle 011N0

Rating 1881 advantagedefensiveMovemiddlegame
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Puzzle 0FFYy

Rating 1881 crushingdeflectionlong
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Puzzle 0N4H0

Rating 1881 crushingmiddlegameshort
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Puzzle 0RS6q

Rating 1881 advantagediscoveredAttackmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0TLxF

Rating 1881 advantagemiddlegameshort
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Puzzle 0TS4g

Rating 1881 advantagemastermiddlegame
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Puzzle 0VaPZ

Rating 1881 crushingmiddlegameshort
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Puzzle 0YmSA

Rating 1881 clearancecrushinglong
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Puzzle 03Mqr

Rating 1882 advantageintermezzomiddlegame
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Puzzle 0FOHo

Rating 1882 advantagemiddlegameshort
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Puzzle 0HgU2

Rating 1882 crushingmiddlegameshort
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Puzzle 0HiRR

Rating 1882 advantagemiddlegameshort
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Puzzle 0MyzU

Rating 1882 advantageattractionfork
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Puzzle 0OmRR

Rating 1882 advantagemiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 0QSY1

Rating 1882 crushingforkmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0Y0Y6

Rating 1882 crushinglongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 06FKc

Rating 1883 matemateIn2middlegame
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Puzzle 07ZBD

Rating 1883 advantagedefensiveMovelong
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Puzzle 08Wvp

Rating 1883 advantagemiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 0Av1P

Rating 1883 crushinglongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0Ek8F

Rating 1883 advantagemiddlegameshort
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