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CHESS PUZZLES


The goal of all chess puzzles is to checkmate your virtual opponent no matter what moves they make (i.e. a forced mate), in the requested number of moves. Some chess puzzles are created from actual chess games played online, and some are purely composed chess problems, sometimes even with positions that cannot be reached in a real game of chess. All chess puzzles are automatically verified, so all solutions are guaranteed to be correct and complete. However, there is always a chance that a shorter solution exists, so if you believe you found a better solution to any of the chess puzzles, please use Options → Another solution in the bottom right corner of the puzzle window to enter it.
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Puzzle:
PuzzleCreatedInfoColorMovesCommentsDifficultySolved/Tried ↓%
193410-Jan-08
– Composed by Sigmund Franz Josef Lehner, Illustriertes Familien Journal 1864.
W33
chess puzzle #1934
305 / 259511%
136617-Dec-07
– 2 moves
W20
chess puzzle #1366
2324 / 259589%
279921-Feb-08
– mate in two moves....very simple
W20
chess puzzle #2799
2139 / 259482%
65424-Nov-07
– Composed by Samuel Loyd, Chess Monthly 1859; the "Charles XII at Bender problem".
W41
chess puzzle #654
1533 / 259459%
78128-Nov-07
– I actually lost to this mate during a recent game. I saw the mate 3 moves before it happened, but th…
B31
chess puzzle #781
2236 / 259186%
278420-Feb-08
–
W20
chess puzzle #2784
1742 / 259067%
61023-Nov-07
– Composed by Otto B. Wurzburg, American Chess Bulletin 1936.
W20
chess puzzle #610
675 / 258926%
313812-Mar-08
– simple, but happens
W20
chess puzzle #3138
2081 / 258780%
116912-Dec-07
– Puzzle 1163, a non-simple minded solution. (See puzzle 1162 for context)
W20
chess puzzle #1169
2280 / 258788%
112011-Dec-07
– a basic puzzle
W40
chess puzzle #1120
1873 / 258672%
152825-Dec-07
– 7-25-07
W20
chess puzzle #1528
2032 / 258578%
113811-Dec-07
– Boris Abramovich Gelfand - Vladislav Ivanovich Tkachiev, Groningen 1997.
W60
chess puzzle #1138
2084 / 258480%
75127-Nov-07
–
W21
chess puzzle #751
2091 / 258480%
196711-Jan-08
– Composed by Karl Ernst Adolf Anderssen, 1849.
W31
chess puzzle #1967
925 / 258335%
168105-Jan-08
– Composed by Charles Ouellet, The Problemist 1987.
W20
chess puzzle #1681
826 / 258032%
277319-Feb-08
– Endgame Classic: Stamma's Mate
W28
chess puzzle #2773
2413 / 257793%
247201-Feb-08
– Manic-Blau, Lugano 1984.
W20
chess puzzle #2472
1815 / 257770%
49820-Nov-07
– Based on a composition by Johann Koers, Deutsches Wochenschach 1916.
W31
chess puzzle #498
403 / 257715%
212116-Jan-08
– Composed by Evgeny Mihajlovich Bogdanov, Commendation Mat-64 2000.
W30
chess puzzle #2121
1112 / 257443%
146422-Dec-07
– The ending of an absolutely insane game of blitz chess I played this week
W20
chess puzzle #1464
2458 / 257495%
201913-Jan-08
– Kingdawar - NN, Internet 2006.
W20
chess puzzle #2019
1781 / 257369%
207115-Jan-08
– Tigran Levonovich Petrosian - Pavel Smirnov, Moscow 2006.
W40
chess puzzle #2071
711 / 257127%
190210-Jan-08
– Evgeni Andreyevich Vasiukov - David Ionovich Bronstein, Baku 1961.
W40
chess puzzle #1902
1003 / 256939%
222822-Jan-08W20
chess puzzle #2228
2273 / 256888%
230726-Jan-08
– Composed by Werner Speckmann, Original 1973.
W20
chess puzzle #2307
635 / 256724%
224423-Jan-08
– Kingdawar - NN, 2008.
W40
chess puzzle #2244
788 / 256530%
216117-Jan-08
– Composed by Halvar Hermanson, Schackvaerlden 1930.
W20
chess puzzle #2161
468 / 256518%
126714-Dec-07
– Fred Reinfeld, 1001 Brilliant Ways to Checkmate 1971.
B40
chess puzzle #1267
977 / 256438%
45020-Nov-07
– Kingdawar - Pawns-kill, GameKnot 2007.
W20
chess puzzle #450
1822 / 256271%
214916-Jan-08W20
chess puzzle #2149
746 / 256129%
90203-Dec-07
– dartustheking #9. (two mates)
B20
chess puzzle #902
870 / 255933%
150325-Dec-07
– dffjy
W26
chess puzzle #1503
2226 / 255887%
36718-Nov-07
– Fred Reinfeld, Win at Chess 1945.
B20
chess puzzle #367
2439 / 255595%
61223-Nov-07
– Composed by Eric Manfred Hassberg, New York Post 1945.
W20
chess puzzle #612
573 / 255422%
58422-Nov-07
– After 2 cent 15 years old Balvenie Whiskey, I made this. Good stuff.
W20
chess puzzle #584
1650 / 255464%
66024-Nov-07
– dariustheking #6 (4 mates)
W40
chess puzzle #660
1215 / 255247%
60623-Nov-07
– Composed by William Anthony Shinkman, 1st Prize Huddersfield College Magazine 1877.
W20
chess puzzle #606
372 / 255114%
55021-Nov-07
– The first of a series of half-adozen Meridith problems, published in a New Zealand chess magazine 20…
W21
chess puzzle #550
520 / 255120%
71726-Nov-07
– Composed by Samuel Loyd, La Strategie 1867.
More solutions: beld
W30
chess puzzle #717
1085 / 255042%
61924-Nov-07
– Laszlo Polgar, 5334 Problems, Combinations, and Games 1994.
W22
chess puzzle #619
1254 / 255049%

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