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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 13969–13992 of 22530 matching records

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Puzzle 0MZHS

Rating 1974 advantagemiddlegameshort
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Puzzle 0Ql05

Rating 1974 discoveredCheckdoubleCheckkingsideAttack
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Puzzle 0TbKG

Rating 1974 crushingdeflectionmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0TI4u

Rating 1974 advantagemiddlegameshort
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Puzzle 0XXze

Rating 1974 crushingmiddlegameshort
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Puzzle 00JsQ

Rating 1975 matemateIn2middlegame
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Puzzle 01aXt

Rating 1975 advantagediscoveredCheckdoubleCheck
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Puzzle 0DguO

Rating 1975 advantagemastermiddlegame
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Puzzle 0ECNp

Rating 1975 advantageforkmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0Exgd

Rating 1975 advancedPawncrushinglong
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Puzzle 0FyMr

Rating 1975 advantagekingsideAttacklong
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Puzzle 0H4XE

Rating 1975 advantagedeflectionmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0HnXt

Rating 1975 advantagekingsideAttacklong
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Puzzle 0S1ZB

Rating 1975 crushingdiscoveredAttackdiscoveredCheck
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Puzzle 0SHqn

Rating 1975 crushingmiddlegamequietMove
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Puzzle 0VluJ

Rating 1975 advantageattractiondeflection
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Puzzle 02tmM

Rating 1976 advantagehangingPiecemiddlegame
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Puzzle 04ky0

Rating 1976 crushingkingsideAttacklong
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Puzzle 0Eput

Rating 1976 advantageexposedKingmiddlegame
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