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| | Advanced pawn | One of your pawns is deep into the opponent position, maybe threatening to promote. | | |
| | Advantage | Seize your chance to get a decisive advantage. (200cp ≤ eval ≤ 600cp) | | |
| | Anastasia's mate | A knight and rook or queen team up to trap the opposing king between the side of the board and a friendly piece. | | |
| | Arabian mate | A knight and a rook team up to trap the opposing king on a corner of the board. | | |
| | Attacking f2 or f7 | An attack focusing on the f2 or f7 pawn, such as in the fried liver opening. | | |
| | Attraction | An exchange or sacrifice encouraging or forcing an opponent piece to a square that allows a follow-up tactic. | | |
| | Back rank mate | Checkmate the king on the home rank, when it is trapped there by its own pieces. | | |
| | Bishop endgame | An endgame with only bishops and pawns. | | |
| | Boden's mate | Two attacking bishops on criss-crossing diagonals deliver mate to a king obstructed by friendly pieces. | | |
| | Castling | Bring the king to safety, and deploy the rook for attack. | | |
| | Capture the defender | Removing a piece that is critical to defence of another piece, allowing the now undefended piece to be captured on a following move. | | |
| | Crushing | Spot the opponent blunder to obtain a crushing advantage. (eval ≥ 600cp) | | |
| | Double bishop mate | Two attacking bishops on adjacent diagonals deliver mate to a king obstructed by friendly pieces. | | |
| | Dovetail mate | A queen delivers mate to an adjacent king, whose only two escape squares are obstructed by friendly pieces. | | |
| | Equality | Come back from a losing position, and secure a draw or a balanced position. (eval ≤ 200cp) | | |
| | Kingside attack | An attack of the opponent's king, after they castled on the king side. | | |
| | Clearance | A move, often with tempo, that clears a square, file or diagonal for a follow-up tactical idea. | | |
| | Defensive move | A precise move or sequence of moves that is needed to avoid losing material or another advantage. | | |
| | Deflection | A move that distracts an opponent piece from another duty that it performs, such as guarding a key square. Sometimes also called "overloading". | | |
| | Discovered attack | Moving a piece (such as a knight), that previously blocked an attack by a long range piece (such as a rook), out of the way of that piece. | | |
| | Double check | Checking with two pieces at once, as a result of a discovered attack where both the moving piece and the unveiled piece attack the opponent's king. | | |
| | Endgame | A tactic during the last phase of the game. | | |
| | En passant | A tactic involving the en passant rule, where a pawn can capture an opponent pawn that has bypassed it using its initial two-square move. | | |
| | Exposed king | A tactic involving a king with few defenders around it, often leading to checkmate. | | |
| | Fork | A move where the moved piece attacks two opponent pieces at once. | | |
| | Hanging piece | A tactic involving an opponent piece being undefended or insufficiently defended and free to capture. | | |
| | Hook mate | Checkmate with a rook, knight, and pawn along with one enemy pawn to limit the enemy king's escape. | | |
| | Interference | Moving a piece between two opponent pieces to leave one or both opponent pieces undefended, such as a knight on a defended square between two rooks. | | |
| | Intermezzo | Instead of playing the expected move, first interpose another move posing an immediate threat that the opponent must answer. Also known as "Zwischenzug" or "In between". | | |
| | Knight endgame | An endgame with only knights and pawns. | | |
| | Long | Three moves to win. | | |
| | Master games | Puzzles from games played by titled players. | | |
| | Master vs Master games | Puzzles from games between two titled players. | | |
| | Checkmate | Win the game with style. | | |
| | Mate in 1 | Deliver checkmate in one move. | | |
| | Mate in 2 | Deliver checkmate in two moves. | | |
| | Mate in 3 | Deliver checkmate in three moves. | | |
| | Mate in 4 | Deliver checkmate in four moves. | | |
| | Mate in 5 or more | Figure out a long mating sequence. | | |
| | Middlegame | A tactic during the second phase of the game. | | |
| | One-move puzzle | A puzzle that is only one move long. | | |
| | Opening | A tactic during the first phase of the game. | | |
| | Pawn endgame | An endgame with only pawns. | | |
| | Pin | A tactic involving pins, where a piece is unable to move without revealing an attack on a higher value piece. | | |
| | Promotion | Promote one of your pawn to a queen or minor piece. | | |
| | Queen endgame | An endgame with only queens and pawns. | | |
| | Queen and Rook | An endgame with only queens, rooks and pawns. | | |
| | Queenside attack | An attack of the opponent's king, after they castled on the queen side. | | |
| | Quiet move | A move that does neither make a check or capture, nor an immediate threat to capture, but does prepare a more hidden unavoidable threat for a later move. | | |
| | Rook endgame | An endgame with only rooks and pawns. | | |
| | Sacrifice | A tactic involving giving up material in the short-term, to gain an advantage again after a forced sequence of moves. | | |
| | Short | Two moves to win. | | |
| | Skewer | A motif involving a high value piece being attacked, moving out the way, and allowing a lower value piece behind it to be captured or attacked, the inverse of a pin. | | |
| | Smothered mate | A checkmate delivered by a knight in which the mated king is unable to move because it is surrounded (or smothered) by its own pieces. | | |
| | Super GM games | Puzzles from games played by the best players in the world. | | |
| | Trapped piece | A piece is unable to escape capture as it has limited moves. | | |
| | Underpromotion | Promotion to a knight, bishop, or rook. | | |
| | Very long | Four moves or more to win. | | |
| | X-Ray attack | A piece attacks or defends a square, through an enemy piece. | | |
| | Zugzwang | The opponent is limited in the moves they can make, and all moves worsen their position. | | |
| | Healthy mix | A bit of everything. You don't know what to expect, so you remain ready for anything! Just like in real games. | | |
| | Player games | Lookup puzzles generated from your games, or from another player's games. | | |
| | Puzzle download information | These puzzles are in the public domain, and can be downloaded from %s. | | |