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Opera mate Chess Puzzles

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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.

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Puzzle 0AaUW

Rating 1777 attractiondiscoveredCheckdoubleCheck
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Puzzle 0MI0J

Rating 1800 kingsideAttackmatemateIn2
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Puzzle 0A9Zd

Rating 1806 attractionmatemateIn2
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Puzzle 0AyJv

Rating 1806 matemateIn2middlegame
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Puzzle 03lYP

Rating 1807 matemateIn2middlegame
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Puzzle 05CzU

Rating 1824 discoveredCheckdoubleCheckmate
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Puzzle 0TaMS

Rating 1832 attractionkingsideAttacklong
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Puzzle 0ToFH

Rating 1833 matemateIn2middlegame
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Puzzle 00XGg

Rating 1846 attractionmatemateIn4
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Puzzle 0F6YE

Rating 1866 endgameexposedKingfork
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Puzzle 0YUVg

Rating 1876 matemateIn2middlegame
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Puzzle 0MFrr

Rating 1890 matemateIn2middlegame
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Puzzle 03Rmn

Rating 1921 discoveredCheckdoubleCheckmate
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Puzzle 0HRJP

Rating 1926 blindSwineMatematemateIn2
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Puzzle 086r2

Rating 1932 endgameexposedKingfork
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Puzzle 0Qaa6

Rating 1947 matemateIn2middlegame
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Puzzle 02pAU

Rating 1996 attractionkingsideAttacklong
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