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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 14017–14040 of 22530 matching records

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Puzzle 0BAxD

Rating 1979 advantagelongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0Ckdp

Rating 1979 advantagelongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0CVZ4

Rating 1979 discoveredAttackdiscoveredCheckequality
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Puzzle 0HENX

Rating 1979 crushingmiddlegameshort
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Puzzle 0JCxq

Rating 1979 crushingdiscoveredAttackdiscoveredCheck
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Puzzle 0UZzT

Rating 1979 advantagemiddlegameshort
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Puzzle 0ViAY

Rating 1979 crushingmiddlegameshort
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Puzzle 0Vyqs

Rating 1979 advantagedefensiveMovelong
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Puzzle 0Xdwp

Rating 1979 advantagelongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0XEKS

Rating 1979 crushingdefensiveMovemaster
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Puzzle 0Xk2K

Rating 1979 crushingmiddlegameshort
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Puzzle 04xJJ

Rating 1980 advantagedefensiveMovelong
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Puzzle 068t8

Rating 1980 crushingmastermiddlegame
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Puzzle 07iNC

Rating 1980 crushingdefensiveMovemaster
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Puzzle 0E3bh

Rating 1980 advantagemiddlegameshort
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Puzzle 0ETs8

Rating 1980 advantagemiddlegameshort
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Puzzle 0IzGn

Rating 1980 advantageforkmiddlegame
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Puzzle 0JxK3

Rating 1980 advancedPawncrushinglong
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Puzzle 0MD1R

Rating 1980 advancedPawnadvantagediscoveredCheck
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Puzzle 0QXiO

Rating 1980 crushingmiddlegameshort
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Puzzle 0Vmn7

Rating 1980 advantagemiddlegameshort
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Puzzle 0XNMb

Rating 1980 advantagelongmiddlegame
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Puzzle 066pQ

Rating 1981 advantagemiddlegameshort
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