Solve chess puzzles. No account needed.
Real tactics pulled from thousands of games — forks, pins, mating nets and endgame tricks. Pick a difficulty, find the best move, and keep going as long as you like. Everything on this page is free.
A free tactics trainer, straight from real games
Every puzzle here is a position from a real game with one best continuation — spot the fork, the pin, the skewer, the back-rank mate or the winning endgame idea. The library covers thousands of positions across every tactical theme and rating band, so casual players and tournament regulars both get puzzles that actually challenge them.
There's also a daily puzzle — same one for everyone, a new position each day. And if your games keep going wrong before the middlegame even starts, the free opening guides walk the main lines and traps of the openings you actually face.
Explore puzzles by theme
Learn the pattern, study an example, then practice it in real positions. For mistakes from your own games, try the free blunder check.
- Fork puzzles
- Pin puzzles
- Skewer puzzles
- Discovered attack puzzles
- Double check puzzles
- Deflection puzzles
- Attraction puzzles
- Hanging piece puzzles
- Trapped piece puzzles
- Checkmate patterns puzzles
- Mate in 1 puzzles
- Mate in 2 puzzles
- Back rank mate puzzles
- Sacrifice puzzles
- Clearance puzzles
- Promotion puzzles
- Exposed king puzzles
- Quiet move puzzles
- Defensive move puzzles
- Intermezzo puzzles
- Interference puzzles
- X ray attack puzzles
- Zugzwang puzzles
- Capturing defender puzzles
- Kingside attack puzzles
- Queenside attack puzzles
- Smothered mate puzzles
- Anastasia mate puzzles
- Arabian mate puzzles
- Hook mate puzzles
- Dovetail mate puzzles
- Kill box mate puzzles
- Mate in 3 puzzles
- Mate in 4 puzzles
- Endgame puzzles
- Rook endgame puzzles
- Pawn endgame puzzles
- Attacking f2 f7 puzzles
- Advanced pawn puzzles
- En passant puzzles