CHESS PUZZLES:
The goal of each chess puzzle is to checkmate your virtual opponent no matter what moves they make (i.e. forced mate).
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Puzzle #
Puzzle Created Author Color Moves Difficulty Solved %
1749619-Nov-09fikzter — Yessssssss, Longest Puzzle In The Main List!!!!!!!!!!!! Multiple Composers Use This principle. This …W49
online chess puzzle #17496
3 / 387%
708604-Nov-08jota58
More solutions: paranoidyoshi
W36
online chess puzzle #7086
35 / 9736%
1729715-Nov-09fikzter — Sorry, Had to try 34.... REICHHELM, G. New York Clipper, 1878 (original #43)W34
online chess puzzle #17297
14 / 5226%
228525-Jan-08ercoledelrio — Based on an arabian problem of Iman Shafi-I, after Al Ladj Ladj. Composed after our universal rules …
More solutions: ice_phoenix, heinzkat
W33
online chess puzzle #2285
6 / 1185%
1729615-Nov-09fikzter — REICHHELM, G. New York Clipper, 1878; Original is Mate in 43... After try for 43, 40, 37 I went for …W31
online chess puzzle #17296
21 / 3560%
877320-Jan-09heinzkat — Composed by Marek Kwiatkowski, 2nd Honourable Mention The Problemist 1992.W29
online chess puzzle #8773
5 / 598%
1465915-Sep-09rick777 — Composed by Pal Benko, EG 1998.
More solutions: fkohn, heinzkat, ericaalders
W27
online chess puzzle #14659
9 / 3525%
1743217-Nov-09fikzter — Josip Michailowitsch Kricheli; Probleemblad, 1975; 1st PrizeW24
online chess puzzle #17432
5 / 4511%
1743117-Nov-09fikzter — Staudte, Rainer & Möckel, Roland; Уральский &#…W24
online chess puzzle #17431
2 / 248%
77728-Nov-07heinzkat — Composed by Horatio Bolton, Chess Player's Chronicle 1850.W24
online chess puzzle #777
95 / 12617%
1275917-Jul-09darkrai123 — Imants Dulbergs, 1972W22
online chess puzzle #12759
11 / 9211%
1270815-Jul-09darkrai123 — Milan Velimirovic, 1980W22
online chess puzzle #12708
28 / 3580%
890026-Jan-09heinzkat — Composed by Tim Krabbe, Chess Curiosities 1985.W22
online chess puzzle #8900
4 / 2814%
1742917-Nov-09fikzter — Kraemer, Adolf: Deutsche Schachblätter, 1949W21
online chess puzzle #17429
9 / 2045%
1742717-Nov-09fikzter — Great Puzzle!!!!! Rudenko, Nikolai : Problem, 1959 (1371)W21
online chess puzzle #17427
4 / 2119%
1263713-Jul-09tugger — Naiderashvilli 1949.
More solutions: fredburger0, tugger
W21
online chess puzzle #12637
8 / 5215%
366511-Apr-08jboyette36 — An interesting "zugzwang" puzzle. A longer (Mate in 60) version of this puzzle was published by Dr.…
More solutions: heinzkat
W21
online chess puzzle #3665
3 / 1052%
17812-Nov-07zoltantor — Another Sam Lloyd one....W21
online chess puzzle #178
772 / 101276%
358406-Apr-08jonny1988 — Mate in twenty by Palevic - (1984)W20
online chess puzzle #3584
8 / 829%
1742517-Nov-09fikzter — Original is pawn c4 => c2 and pawn h7 => h6... Dieffenbach, Harald: Schach, 1973-07W19
online chess puzzle #17425
3 / 1915%
1605219-Oct-09fikzter — Der brillante Schachzug 42 – Matt in 19; Weenink 1922; W.EigenmannW19
online chess puzzle #16052
9 / 3625%
1485020-Sep-09spongy
More solutions: wizard2011, ericaalders
W19
online chess puzzle #14850
28 / 3580%
1355110-Aug-09fikzter — U.MARKS The British Chess Magazine 1994W19
online chess puzzle #13551
10 / 1248%
1208625-Jun-09gavin_stevens — Composition by Ladislav Salai, Jr., 2001.W19
online chess puzzle #12086
7 / 759%
664716-Oct-08im_sonoftal — An easy Mate in 19 for the beginner to solve. Position and technique exaggerated to illustrate the …W19
online chess puzzle #6647
42 / 5675%
476812-Jun-08jakey101 — Ever tried a mate in 19 puzzle? It's really not as hard as it sounds.. :)W19
online chess puzzle #4768
2 / 523%
1664301-Nov-09darkrai123 — Shortened version of U. Marks' Puzzle. 1994.W18
online chess puzzle #16643
7 / 6211%
264613-Feb-08lamona — An enterteining mate!!
More solutions: bewxdarkone, heinzkat, ericaalders
W18
online chess puzzle #2646
23 / 10721%
1461414-Sep-09rick777 — Composed by Y. Vladimirov, Macleod Memorial Tourney 1994.W17
online chess puzzle #14614
6 / 2722%
707804-Nov-08heinzkat — Composed by Yakov Georgevich Vladimirov, 1st Prize Macleod Memorial Tourney 1994.W17
online chess puzzle #7078
4 / 439%
599210-Sep-08heinzkat — Composed by William Anthony Shinkman, Deutsche Schachzeitung 1873.W17
online chess puzzle #5992
3 / 2810%
158301-Jan-08wcale — WILLYWONKZ WACKYWORLD #7W17
online chess puzzle #1583
214 / 33364%
1331802-Aug-09nyctalop — Composed by Infantozzi, White to move and mate in 16 moves.
More solutions: ericaalders
W16
online chess puzzle #13318
12 / 6020%
1096011-May-09heinzkat — Composed by Geoffrey Chandler, Chandler's Corner 2009.W16
online chess puzzle #10960
6 / 4313%
837029-Dec-08gavin_stevens — Composition by Tomislav Petrovic & Radovan TomasevicW16
online chess puzzle #8370
4 / 449%
776530-Nov-08urigur — another extreme variation on #7761W16
online chess puzzle #7765
50 / 6083%
716407-Nov-08steeps — Very elegant I think.
More solutions: fikzter
W16
online chess puzzle #7164
16 / 3053%
707904-Nov-08heinzkat — Composed by William Anthony Shinkman & Otto B. Wurzburg, Pittsburgh Gazette Times 1918.W16
online chess puzzle #7079
3 / 2213%
596608-Sep-08heinzkat — Composed by Otto Titusz Blathy, The Chess Amateur 1922.W16
online chess puzzle #5966
4 / 2913%
1414128-Aug-09spongy
More solutions: paranoidyoshi
W15
online chess puzzle #14141
20 / 5337%

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