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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 13033–13056 of 22530 matching records

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Puzzle 0Oz0i

Rating 1894 advancedPawncrushingmaster
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Puzzle 0Rxvy

Rating 1894 advantageattackingF2F7master
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Puzzle 0YkpW

Rating 1894 crushinglongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 08QJL

Rating 1895 advantagediscoveredAttacklong
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Puzzle 0A2t1

Rating 1895 crushinglongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0AJrm

Rating 1895 crushingenPassantmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0DSi1

Rating 1895 advantageintermezzomiddlegame
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Puzzle 048Me

Rating 1896 crushingmiddlegameshort
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Puzzle 0E8gG

Rating 1896 crushingdefensiveMovemiddlegame
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Puzzle 0FXn6

Rating 1896 advantagemiddlegameshort
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Puzzle 0MtMa

Rating 1896 advantagemiddlegameshort
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Puzzle 0VWIn

Rating 1896 advantagemiddlegameshort
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Puzzle 0VX6U

Rating 1896 advantagelongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0XRaR

Rating 1896 crushingmiddlegameshort
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Puzzle 04nRF

Rating 1897 advantagemiddlegameshort
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Puzzle 04RN4

Rating 1897 advantageinterferencelong
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Puzzle 06X2e

Rating 1897 advantagelongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 09lsp

Rating 1897 crushingdefensiveMovelong
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Puzzle 0D7ZN

Rating 1897 advantagedefensiveMovelong
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Puzzle 0G2yN

Rating 1897 advantageforkmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0RxTV

Rating 1897 advantagemiddlegameshort
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Puzzle 0TwfH

Rating 1897 attractionmatemateIn5
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