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 %
4729-Oct-07heinzkat — Based on Fridrich - Bantleon, Hannover 1967.W4
online chess puzzle #47
2964 / 439767%
14312-Nov-07herros — Forgot composer, but it is an old and famous puzzleW3
online chess puzzle #143
653 / 419715%
26515-Nov-07heinzkat — Composed by Gerald Frank Anderson, Good Companions 1919.W2
online chess puzzle #265
1320 / 418131%
47420-Nov-07heinzkat — David Navara - Jan Smeets, Marina d'Or 1998.
More solutions: pickelt11
W5
online chess puzzle #474
1963 / 403248%
135817-Dec-07the_duke — My first attempt at making a puzzleW5
online chess puzzle #1358
3014 / 392376%
5830-Oct-07heinzkat — Composed by Azaris, GameKnot 2004.W3
online chess puzzle #58
1138 / 391829%
38518-Nov-07rumbata — Something a little more difficultyW3
online chess puzzle #385
2845 / 381274%
9005-Nov-07throneseeker — Problem # 17. My thanks to heinzkat for guidance on the proper way to set up this problem.
More solutions: heinzkat
W6
online chess puzzle #90
1364 / 376636%
181908-Jan-08cavalierknight — Keep it simpleW2
online chess puzzle #1819
2633 / 372970%
26715-Nov-07heinzkat — Composed by Cyril Henry Stanley Kipping, Manchester City News 1911.
More solutions: heinzkat
W3
online chess puzzle #267
573 / 372015%
62724-Nov-07heinzkat — Based on a composition by Miroslav Havel, Ceskoslovensky Sach 1930.W2
online chess puzzle #627
1804 / 366049%
53221-Nov-07heinzkat — Based on Igor Zakharovich Bondarevsky - Anatoly Ufimtsev, Leningrad 1936. W4
online chess puzzle #532
2101 / 364157%
22714-Nov-07wojko — ClassicW2
online chess puzzle #227
3284 / 361890%
60923-Nov-07heinzkat — Composed by Otto B. Wurzburg, 1st Prize Pittsburgh Gazette-Times 1917.W2
online chess puzzle #609
1511 / 357742%
136817-Dec-07heinzkat — Rajko Bogdanovic - Miso Cebalo, Titograd 1965.W3
online chess puzzle #1368
2303 / 354564%
117-May-08gameknot_com — I.V.Diaconu, Der Waarheid, 1967W2
online chess puzzle #1
397 / 351911%
20513-Nov-07heinzkat — Composed by Frederick Bonner Feast, Birmingham Post 1897.W2
online chess puzzle #205
279 / 35037%
68225-Nov-07simonspera — Tartakower should have known better than to play Nxe4!W3
online chess puzzle #682
2651 / 350275%
30416-Nov-07kwijybo — Opening trap.W4
online chess puzzle #304
2530 / 347072%
12110-Nov-07heinzkat — Based on Siegbert Tarrasch - Carl Schlechter, Cologne 1911.W5
online chess puzzle #121
1881 / 345054%
130515-Dec-07heinzkat — Composed by Heinzkat, GameKnot 2007.W2
online chess puzzle #1305
2094 / 344860%
115612-Dec-07shadow_1990 — Played it today in a tournament. Nice little puzzle. (Difficulty: Medium)B4
online chess puzzle #1156
2616 / 344875%
37518-Nov-07heinzkat — Based on William Henry Krause Pollock - Francis Joseph Lee, London 1888.W4
online chess puzzle #375
1039 / 344830%
56921-Nov-07throneseeker — Problem # 51W3
online chess puzzle #569
2438 / 344770%
35818-Nov-07heinzkat — Composed by Samuel Loyd, New York Musical World 1860.W2
online chess puzzle #358
1142 / 344533%
61023-Nov-07heinzkat — Composed by Otto B. Wurzburg, American Chess Bulletin 1936.W2
online chess puzzle #610
904 / 341426%
21013-Nov-07heinzkat — Based on Harry Nelson Pillsbury - George Lyman, Chicago 1899.W3
online chess puzzle #210
1328 / 340938%
69325-Nov-07heinzkat — Based on a composition by Alexey Alexeyevich Troitzky, Novoye Vremja 1895.W4
online chess puzzle #693
2337 / 340268%
32817-Nov-07paranoidyoshi — Ignore Black's multitude of moves. The solution is the same.
More solutions: bewxdarkone
W3
online chess puzzle #328
1508 / 338844%
32217-Nov-07mulen — - 1988
More solutions: tehpoland, tommy_two_hats
W4
online chess puzzle #322
2553 / 337375%
60623-Nov-07heinzkat — Composed by William Anthony Shinkman, 1st Prize Huddersfield College Magazine 1877.W2
online chess puzzle #606
480 / 337214%
68125-Nov-07simonspera — A simple mate in two if you avoid the red herringsW2
online chess puzzle #681
2457 / 336173%
108910-Dec-07heinzkat — Composed by Antonio G. Corrias, Good Companions 1917.W2
online chess puzzle #1089
1132 / 335333%
9305-Nov-07heinzkat — Composed by Samuel Loyd, Chess Monthly 1858.W3
online chess puzzle #93
879 / 334626%
22213-Nov-07dkirby — Réti-Tartakower, Vienna 1910. W3
online chess puzzle #222
2016 / 334460%
21613-Nov-07hughff — Bosboom-Lanchava, Tea; Sorokina, Anastasia (Spain, 2004) White has Qh8# but it's not her move.B3
online chess puzzle #216
2196 / 332865%
35618-Nov-07heinzkat — Composed by Samuel Loyd, Musical World 1859.W2
online chess puzzle #356
1740 / 332352%
99706-Dec-07heinzkat — Walter Shawn Browne - Victor Brond, Mar del Plata 1971.W3
online chess puzzle #997
2807 / 332284%
157131-Dec-07heinzkat — Composed by Robert A. Lincoln, The Problemist 1992.W2
online chess puzzle #1571
1625 / 331948%
92103-Dec-07minimac0 — using three point pieces against five point piecesB4
online chess puzzle #921
2488 / 330175%

Please note: puzzles with too many alternative solutions are excluded from the main list, but can still be accessed via the creator's stats/profile page.