Tactical puzzles

Start with ChessAvatar challenges — positions from historic games in our catalog (same material as opening lessons). Plus daily and random puzzles via Lichess.

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These positions come from historic games built into the app — the same content as Learn, in quiz format with hints.
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Each game includes one or more challenges — find the key moves from our lesson material.

Anderssen, Adolf vs Suhle, Berthold — Casual match, Berlin (round 3) (1864.07.??) · 1-0

Challenges in this game

Black has just played …Be3. How does Anderssen continue immediately with the knight on f6?

Position before the move to find

You can also play the move on the board.

Side to move: White

8
br
7
bb
bq
bp
bk
bp
6
bp
bp
wn
5
wp
bp
wp
4
bp
3
wp
wb
bb
2
wp
wn
wp
wp
1a
b
c
d
wr
e
wq
f
g
wk
h
Help: multiple-choice (SAN)

Community puzzle

Guess a move that was actually played and begins a forced mate in exactly 2 or 3 attacker half-moves (optimal defense). Pre-indexed from community cloud games.

Extra: Lichess puzzles
Additional training from the Lichess tactics database (real, recent games on their platform).

Lichess puzzles are generated from real, recent games on their platform.

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The same Lichess daily puzzle for everyone, refreshed at midnight UTC.

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Random puzzle

A random puzzle from the Lichess database.