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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 13489–13512 of 22530 matching records

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Puzzle 0UTXj

Rating 1931 advantagehangingPieceintermezzo
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Puzzle 04F9l

Rating 1932 advantagedefensiveMovefork
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Puzzle 0FnSL

Rating 1932 advantagelongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0Mx4J

Rating 1932 advantageforkmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0NrgK

Rating 1932 advantageexposedKinglong
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Puzzle 0UBEE

Rating 1932 crushingdeflectionlong
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Puzzle 0YUgc

Rating 1932 advancedPawnadvantageclearance
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Puzzle 0GHzc

Rating 1933 advantagehangingPiecemaster
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Puzzle 0Jli4

Rating 1933 advantagediscoveredAttacklong
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Puzzle 0TL2U

Rating 1933 crushingmiddlegameshort
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Puzzle 0UrXU

Rating 1933 advantageforkhangingPiece
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Puzzle 073Tp

Rating 1934 advantageclearancemiddlegame
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Puzzle 09aGc

Rating 1934 advantagemiddlegameshort
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Puzzle 09ODD

Rating 1934 crushingmiddlegameshort
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Puzzle 0F9MP

Rating 1934 kingsideAttackmatemateIn2
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Puzzle 0LTFw

Rating 1934 advantageattractionfork
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Puzzle 0LzGb

Rating 1934 matemateIn2middlegame
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Puzzle 0QAaf

Rating 1934 crushingmiddlegameshort
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Puzzle 0Tgvl

Rating 1934 advantagemiddlegameshort
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Puzzle 0VNqd

Rating 1934 advantageexposedKingmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0XDKX

Rating 1934 crushingmastermiddlegame
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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