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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 05Mm0

Rating 887 kingsideAttackmatemateIn1
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Puzzle 03BSR

Rating 899 kingsideAttackmatemateIn2
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Puzzle 0DzAF

Rating 902 endgamehangingPiecemate
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Puzzle 0NHh5

Rating 902 endgamemastermasterVsMaster
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Puzzle 0DwdL

Rating 909 kingsideAttackmatemateIn1
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Puzzle 073Wk

Rating 945 discoveredCheckdoubleCheckmate
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Puzzle 0O4E6

Rating 951 hangingPiecekingsideAttackmate
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Puzzle 0Lgnr

Rating 956 kingsideAttackmatemateIn2
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Puzzle 07q1M

Rating 961 kingsideAttackmatemateIn2
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