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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 13297–13320 of 22530 matching records

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Puzzle 0AOHu

Rating 1916 crushingdeflectionlong
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Puzzle 0Cm16

Rating 1916 advantageforkmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0Eivw

Rating 1916 advantagehangingPiecemiddlegame
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Puzzle 0GujM

Rating 1916 crushingmiddlegamesacrifice
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Puzzle 0IPjF

Rating 1916 advantageforkmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0O6GG

Rating 1916 advantagekingsideAttackmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0R3mV

Rating 1916 advantagedefensiveMovehangingPiece
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Puzzle 0Tuj1

Rating 1916 advantagelongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0Tzir

Rating 1916 crushingmiddlegamepin
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Puzzle 0UxMQ

Rating 1916 advancedPawnadvantageclearance
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Puzzle 00bqJ

Rating 1917 advantageattractionlong
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Puzzle 01TDT

Rating 1917 advantageintermezzokingsideAttack
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Puzzle 04tyQ

Rating 1917 advantagediscoveredAttackmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0EsJ2

Rating 1917 advantagemiddlegameshort
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Puzzle 0GDFq

Rating 1917 matemateIn2middlegame
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Puzzle 0XYXZ

Rating 1917 advantagelongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 00rhJ

Rating 1918 advantagedefensiveMovemiddlegame
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Puzzle 020Gj

Rating 1918 kingsideAttackmatemateIn1
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Puzzle 04Vom

Rating 1918 crushingdiscoveredAttackmiddlegame
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Puzzle 06OET

Rating 1918 matemateIn2middlegame
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Puzzle 09Cn6

Rating 1918 crushingforkmiddlegame
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Puzzle 09irc

Rating 1918 advantagemiddlegameshort
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Puzzle 0CFGd

Rating 1918 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