Chess Puzzles

Welcome to our chess puzzle collection — your go-to destination for challenging and fun chess puzzles! Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned player, you’ll find puzzles that test and sharpen your tactical thinking.

This collection features a wide range of interactive chess puzzles, from simple 1-move checkmates to complex 21-move combinations. Each puzzle is designed to improve your chess strategy, calculation, and decision-making skills.

All puzzles are fully interactive: simply click and drag pieces on the board to make your move. After each move, you’ll see how your virtual opponent responds as you work toward solving the puzzle in the designated number of moves.

Stuck on a puzzle? No problem! Take your time, rethink your strategy, and try again. Chess mastery comes from persistence and practice.

You can choose to solve any puzzle from our database — start with the most popular, select one by difficulty, or dive into a random chess puzzle and see how far your skills take you.

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Chess puzzle #26

Author
Speckmann, Werner
Source
Deutsche Schachzeitung
Date
1975
Make checkmate in 2 steps

Chess puzzle #40

Author
Jakab, Árpád
Source
Good Companion
Date
1922
Make checkmate in 2 steps

Chess puzzle #28

Author
Speckmann, Werner
Source
Deutsche Schachzeitung
Date
1975
Make checkmate in 2 steps

Chess puzzle #10

Author
Speckmann, Werner
Source
Deutsche Schachzeitung
Date
1975
Make checkmate in 3 steps

Chess puzzle #2

Author
Loyd, Samuel
Source
Detroit Free Press
Date
1877
Make checkmate in 2 steps

Chess puzzle #15

Author
Kardos, Tivadar
Source
Deutsche Schachzeitung
Date
1971
Make checkmate in 2 steps

Chess puzzle #45

Author
Speckmann, Werner
Source
Deutsche Schachzeitung
Date
1975
Make checkmate in 3 steps