ChessPuzzle.net: Improve your chess by solving chess puzzles

"Chess is 99% Tactics" - Richard Teichmann

Tactics are the most important aspect of the game for chess players of all levels, from beginner to grandmaster.

On ChessPuzzle.net you can learn, train, and improve your tactical skills based on positions that happened in real tournament games.

13th December 2024: Intermediate Chess Puzzles out, many updates to ChessPuzzle.net and Puzzle Academy!

Beginner Chess Puzzles and Intermediate Chess Puzzles, are out now! Based on the Puzzle Academy curriculum, Beginner Chess Puzzles helps you master fundamental tactics with 500 carefully selected puzzles. Intermediate Chess Puzzles is an introduction to chess combinations with 500 beautiful and instructive puzzles.

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Read about the updates to ChessPuzzle.net and Puzzle Academy, including refutation moves, and new content such as how to solve confusing situations like the one in the diagram.

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Master Chess Tactics with Puzzle Academy

  • Your personalized learning solution
  • Systematically learn key tactical motifs and master them through personalized workout sessions.
  • Tracks your progress and adapts to your strengths and weaknesses
  • Progress through an adaptable skill tree with 8 courses and over 200,000 puzzles
  • Experience a comprehensive curriculum, from fundamentals to advanced tactics and endgames
  • Master complex and beautiful combinations with multiple tactical motifs
  • Learn spectacular checkmate combinations by combining tactical motifs and checkmate patterns
Start Learning with Puzzle Academy

Get ready for real games with Puzzle Inception

  • Train your tactical alertness and positional evaluation
  • Learn when to look for tactics in real game situations
  • Evaluate positions without knowing if there's a tactic
  • Improve your in-game decision-making skills
Dive into Puzzle Inception

Customize Your Training with Puzzle Filter

  • Select the difficulty
  • Master specific motifs like knight forks
  • Practice checkmate patterns, such as smothered mate
  • Explore tactics from your favorite openings
  • Unlock countless possibilities for personalized training
Create Your Custom Filter

Boost your concentration with Puzzle Climb

  • Test your tactical abilities
  • Sharpen your focus
  • Don't rush
  • Master challenging puzzles
  • Climb the leaderboard
Play Puzzle Climb

Puzzle Practice

  • Sharpen your vision and calculation abilities
  • Receive a rating to monitor your progress
  • Puzzles tailored to your skill level
  • Enjoy beautiful chess puzzles
Begin your practice session

Checkmate Armageddon

  • Practice checkmate patterns
  • Fast-paced gameplay: High stakes action with every move
  • Beginners and experts alike can enjoy this adrenaline-pumping game mode
  • Climb the leaderboard
  • Unleash your inner chess hero and save the world from Armageddon
Checkmate Armageddon

Version 3 Checkmate Puzzles

ChessPuzzle.net Version 3 is here, starting with the most popular puzzles - Checkmates!

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