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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 13009–13032 of 22530 matching records

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Puzzle 04nzp

Rating 1893 discoveredAttackmatemateIn2
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Puzzle 0DYbn

Rating 1893 advantagedefensiveMovemiddlegame
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Puzzle 0HFOs

Rating 1893 advantagemiddlegameshort
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Puzzle 0I9fx

Rating 1893 advantagedefensiveMovelong
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Puzzle 0LrTh

Rating 1893 advantagecollinearMovelong
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Puzzle 0MehH

Rating 1893 advantagemastermasterVsMaster
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Puzzle 0MNJA

Rating 1893 advantagemiddlegamequietMove
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Puzzle 0OzQU

Rating 1893 advantagemiddlegameshort
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Puzzle 0TndI

Rating 1893 kingsideAttackmatemateIn2
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Puzzle 0WPw8

Rating 1893 advantagemiddlegamesacrifice
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Puzzle 0Yxfh

Rating 1893 crushinghangingPiecemiddlegame
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Puzzle 03QIF

Rating 1894 crushingmiddlegameshort
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Puzzle 03TkB

Rating 1894 advantagemiddlegameshort
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Puzzle 05hKl

Rating 1894 crushingkingsideAttacklong
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Puzzle 06YkJ

Rating 1894 crushingforkmiddlegame
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Puzzle 07D26

Rating 1894 advantageclearancelong
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Puzzle 0Bm8l

Rating 1894 advantagediscoveredAttackmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0HvPh

Rating 1894 advantagemastermiddlegame
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Puzzle 0Ia3k

Rating 1894 advancedPawncrushingmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0JWe8

Rating 1894 advantagelongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0LPDY

Rating 1894 advantagedefensiveMovelong
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Puzzle 0MchS

Rating 1894 crushingmiddlegamepin
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