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
foundation
Rating 867
matemateIn1middlegame
foundation
Rating 867
advantagedefensiveMovemiddlegame
foundation
Rating 867
mastermatemateIn1
foundation
Rating 867
mastermatemateIn1
foundation
Rating 868
kingsideAttackmatemateIn2
foundation
Rating 868
advantageforklong
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Rating 868
crushingforkmiddlegame
foundation
Rating 868
kingsideAttackmatemateIn1
foundation
Rating 868
kingsideAttackmatemateIn2
foundation
Rating 869
kingsideAttackmastermate
foundation
Rating 869
crushingforkmiddlegame
foundation
Rating 869
matemateIn1middlegame
foundation
Rating 869
hangingPiecematemateIn1
foundation
Rating 869
cornerMatematemateIn1
foundation
Rating 869
matemateIn1middlegame
foundation
Rating 869
matemateIn1middlegame
foundation
Rating 869
kingsideAttackmatemateIn1
foundation
Rating 870
matemateIn1middlegame
foundation
Rating 870
clearancekingsideAttackmate
foundation
Rating 870
backRankMatedeflectionmate
foundation
Rating 870
mastermatemateIn1
foundation
Rating 870
matemateIn2middlegame
foundation
Rating 870
kingsideAttackmatemateIn2
foundation
Rating 870
crushingdiscoveredAttackmiddlegame
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