Puzzles

Open the Puzzles tab. Puzzles are the fastest way to learn tactics.

Rated puzzles

• A new puzzle is picked at about your puzzle rating. Find the best move, then the replies, until the puzzle is solved.
• Solve it and your puzzle rating goes up. Miss it and it goes down a little.
• Hint: tap for a hint on the piece or the idea. A few hints are free every day and you can get more with a rewarded ad (Rewarded ads).
• Next brings a new puzzle. Skip drops a hard one without penalty.

Themes

Open Puzzles, Themes to train one idea: forks, pins, skewers, discovered attacks, back-rank mates, deflection, sacrifices, endgames, mates in 1, 2 and 3, and more.

Missed puzzles

A puzzle you miss goes into your review queue and comes back later. Fixing old mistakes is the fastest way to remove them.

How to train

• 15 to 30 puzzles a day beat 200 once a week.
• Solve it in your head before you move the pieces. Calculate the whole line.
• After a game, train the theme of your biggest mistake.

Tip: the same puzzle in the review queue? That is a pattern you do not own yet. Look at it as a lesson, not as a failure.

Related: Daily puzzle, Puzzle Rush.

Open in the app: https://chessgm.net/puzzles