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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.

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Puzzle 0fKiA

Rating 2003 discoveredCheckdoubleCheckendgame
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Puzzle 0H8LG

Rating 2004 discoveredCheckdoubleCheckmate
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Puzzle 0R6CC

Rating 2007 discoveredAttackdiscoveredCheckendgame
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Puzzle 0ARtb

Rating 2015 attractionkingsideAttacklong
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Puzzle 0gWiM

Rating 2032 discoveredCheckdoubleCheckendgame
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Puzzle 0ClVy

Rating 2044 discoveredAttackdiscoveredCheckexposedKing
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Puzzle 0ftFY

Rating 2108 discoveredCheckdoubleCheckendgame
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Puzzle 0aR3G

Rating 2238 attractionkingsideAttackmate
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Puzzle 0CKbw

Rating 2275 advancedPawnendgameexposedKing
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Puzzle 0EKAK

Rating 2292 discoveredAttackdiscoveredCheckmate
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Puzzle 0Le3t

Rating 2350 attractionkingsideAttacklong
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Puzzle 0VqTM

Rating 2372 epauletteMatemastermasterVsMaster
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Puzzle 0AeID

Rating 2383 deflectionkingsideAttacklong
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Puzzle 0YdWE

Rating 2434 discoveredAttackdiscoveredCheckmate
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