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 %
1068528-Apr-09heinzkat — Composed by Napoleon Marache, Marache's Manual of Chess 1866.W2
online chess puzzle #10685
0 / 200%
1073730-Apr-09heinzkat — Composed by Josef Pospisil, Samostatnost 1912.W3
online chess puzzle #10737
1 / 492%
940822-Feb-09heinzkat — Composed by Mikhail Marandyuk, 1st Prize Shavirin-50 JT 2003.W4
online chess puzzle #9408
1 / 422%
114611-Dec-07paddl3s — Quirky puzzle, takes a while to get your head around ;)
More solutions: codebreaker, heinzkat
W12
online chess puzzle #1146
43 / 17322%
151925-Dec-07heinzkat — Composed by Josef Pospisil, Zlata Praha 1885.W3
online chess puzzle #1519
39 / 14712%
26615-Nov-07heinzkat — Composed by Samuel Loyd, New York Sunday Herald 1889.W2
online chess puzzle #266
74 / 27832%
28616-Nov-07hoss7334 — its all about forced moves.W6
online chess puzzle #286
25 / 9042%
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%
28416-Nov-07hoss7334 — it seems that Black has all the mating threats covered by the pieces on the back rank, so how can Wh…W2
online chess puzzle #284
64 / 22092%
10607-Nov-07heinzkat — Composed by William Greenwood, Illustrated London News 1859.W3
online chess puzzle #106
36 / 12232%
1082804-May-09bubanja — W.A.SHINKMAN 1886W3
online chess puzzle #10828
1 / 333%
107910-Dec-07shadow_1990 — An absolutly classic puzzle. Think carefully. (Difficulty: Hard)W5
online chess puzzle #1079
18 / 5833%
302006-Mar-08heinzkat — Composed by Josef Kling, The Chess Euclid 1849.W5
online chess puzzle #3020
2 / 643%
493425-Jun-08jakey101 — Mate in 13 (O.Schmitt, 1st Prize The Problemist 1994)W13
online chess puzzle #4934
2 / 613%
377919-Apr-08deroryst — This is a puzzle that written by Hartong in 1925W2
online chess puzzle #3779
2 / 613%
22013-Nov-07dkirby — L. Kubbel, 1937.
More solutions: heinzkat
W4
online chess puzzle #220
32 / 9753%
79729-Nov-07hoss7334 — Rusinek, 1984. How to escape the perpetual check? (Note: I tried to put in the puzzle a move earlier…
More solutions: heinzkat, im_sonoftal, slavisa
W7
online chess puzzle #797
50 / 15003%
5930-Oct-07heinzkat — Composed by Karol Mlynka, 3rd Prize Slovensko Lotyssko 1991.W9
online chess puzzle #59
34 / 10053%
315413-Mar-08heinzkat — Composed by Alexander Vasiliev Galitzky, Shakhmatny Zhurnal 1897.W5
online chess puzzle #3154
1 / 293%
1080403-May-09heinzkat — Composed by Wolfgang Pauly, Deutsches Wochenschach 1905.W4
online chess puzzle #10804
2 / 573%
460604-Jun-08badmoonrising — Mypuzzle 1: A lot harder than it looksW3
online chess puzzle #4606
2 / 553%
785604-Dec-08andy94 — Don't know who the author is, but the solution is very nice.W6
online chess puzzle #7856
3 / 823%
916710-Feb-09heinzkat — Composed by Erich Zepler & Adolf Kraemer, Neue Leipziger Zeitung 1935.W3
online chess puzzle #9167
1 / 273%
556409-Aug-08anarchessist — A fun position that arose in a blitz game. My opponent played the line leading to mate in five in re…
More solutions: heinzkat
W6
online chess puzzle #5564
2 / 543%
499001-Jul-08heinzkat — Composed by Jan Willem Le Comte, Tijdschrift van den NSB 1903.W3
online chess puzzle #4990
4 / 1083%
341528-Mar-08chasparos — This one has it all. Disadvantage, Sac, Quiet move, Central mate & a plausible position. (very stran…
More solutions: codebreaker, agentsparrow, nymersic, heinzkat
W7
online chess puzzle #3415
4 / 1073%
305907-Mar-08mouseman42 — night mate
More solutions: mouseman42, pyotr_kropotkin
W6
online chess puzzle #3059
3 / 803%
581928-Aug-08heinzkat — Composed by Samuel Loyd, Baltimore Dispatch 1859.W3
online chess puzzle #5819
2 / 533%
526716-Jul-08jakey101 — F.Giegold, 1975W4
online chess puzzle #5267
3 / 783%
481015-Jun-08heinzkat — Composed by Wilhelm Kluxen, Die Welt 1947.W5
online chess puzzle #4810
2 / 523%
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%
427412-May-08animusrex
More solutions: andy94
B9
online chess puzzle #4274
3 / 783%
152625-Dec-07heinzkat — Composed by Vladimir Pachman, 1st Prize SVTVS 1954.W4
online chess puzzle #1526
16 / 4153%
809413-Dec-08soultosqueeze — composed by Frank Richter, Freie Presse 2582 1984, 2. ehrende ErwähnungW7
online chess puzzle #8094
2 / 513%
416406-May-08animusrex — 2 corners of doom
More solutions: wizard2011
W11
online chess puzzle #4164
2 / 504%
394226-Apr-08cricketmad5wk — A. van der Ven 1925W2
online chess puzzle #3942
2 / 504%
191110-Jan-08heinzkat — Composed by Manfred Zucker, Der Tagesspiegel 1990.W5
online chess puzzle #1911
3 / 754%
336424-Mar-08zebutom — #7 (by...William A Shinkman 1890)...
More solutions: heinzkat
W3
online chess puzzle #3364
4 / 994%
1020504-Apr-09mimma W4
online chess puzzle #10205
3 / 744%
531520-Jul-08heinzkat — Composed by Camillo Gamnitzer, Schach-Aktiv 1995.W3
online chess puzzle #5315
3 / 744%

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.