Chess Puzzles

Doing chess puzzles is a good way to become better at chess but it also develops critical and creative thinking, memory and more (see the section Why chess? in Chess Info for further information).

On this website you can buy Smári’s Puzzles straight from the author. Then there are of course the online categorized puzzles (levels 1, 2, 3 and 4). Right on this page here I'll put puzzles that I find particularly interesting. Finally, there are daily puzzles here below.

Amazing Puzzles

Adolf Anderssen, 1846

White mates in five moves (black king on a5).

Solution

The Indian Problem

White mates in four moves (black king on e4). A very famous problem, published in The Chess Players Chronicle in 1845, by an English cleric in India, Henry Augustus Loveday.

Solution

Julius Menheim, 1832

White mates in seven moves (black king on g8).

Solution

Damiano, 1512

White mates in two moves (black king on h8).

Solution

Jörgen Möller, 1918

White to move and mate in 3 (black king is on a1).

Solution

White Mates in 2

White king is on d3. Only one correct solution.

Solution

Ercole del Rio

A chess puzzle from 1750, by Ercole del Rio. White to play and draw. The White king is on h1.

Solution

White is No Rookie

White to play and win (White king on e1). Note that Black threatens Ra1# and that castling is not allowed! That would have been to easy!

Solution

The Stairway to Heaven

White to move and mate in 12 moves! The Black king is on a1.

Solution

White Mates in 3

I think this puzzle is very elegant in its simplicity. It's White to mate in three moves (Black king on e8). Feel free to comment or give your solutions below (those of you who use facebook).

Solution

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Restless Knights

Amazing Puzzles

Daily Puzzles