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Opera mate 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.

435 real-game puzzles in this collection

What is a opera mate?

Named after Morphy’s famous opera-house game: a rook (or queen) mates along the back rank or central file while a bishop pins or covers the diagonal escape.

How to spot it

A bishop slicing toward the king’s escape diagonal plus a heavy piece owning the open file — when both lines meet at the king, the mate is there.

What this set trains

A pattern that teaches piece harmony: two long-range pieces covering complementary lines.

Foundation: 255Developing: 86Challenging: 67Advanced: 27

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24 shown from 49500 locally materialized records.

Showing 361–384 of 435 matching records

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Puzzle 0GmWn

Rating 1664 attractionendgamelong
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Puzzle 0B4Cm

Rating 1676 matemateIn1middlegame
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Puzzle 0EV7I

Rating 1683 matemateIn2middlegame
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Puzzle 0Pnky

Rating 1690 attractionkingsideAttacklong
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Puzzle 01Y67

Rating 1692 matemateIn2middlegame
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Puzzle 0TPsb

Rating 1705 kingsideAttackmatemateIn2
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Puzzle 08lsp

Rating 1725 matemateIn2middlegame
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Puzzle 0Tmh9

Rating 1726 discoveredCheckdoubleCheckmaster
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Puzzle 0TfLX

Rating 1735 attractionkingsideAttackmate
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Puzzle 0UQiN

Rating 1735 matemateIn2middlegame
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Puzzle 0QC1U

Rating 1749 epauletteMatematemateIn2
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Puzzle 0HZut

Rating 1756 matemateIn2middlegame
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Puzzle 074Hj

Rating 1761 clearancekingsideAttackmate
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Puzzle 044Hb

Rating 1763 discoveredAttacklongmate
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Puzzle 0FXwj

Rating 1764 attractionendgamemate
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Puzzle 02SQK

Rating 1771 attractionkingsideAttacklong
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