Chess puzzles

Solve chess puzzles matched to your level, free and without ads or a daily limit. Each puzzle comes from a real game: find the best move, and your puzzle rating goes up or down with every first try. Pick a theme such as forks, pins or mate in two, or mix them all. No sign-up needed.

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How it works

  1. The board shows a position from a real game, just after the opponent's move. Move the piece you think is best, by dragging it or by clicking it and then its square.
  2. A right move is answered at once and the puzzle goes on until the line is finished. A wrong move stays off the board, and you can try again.
  3. Only your first try counts for your rating: solved if you found every move with no help, missed if you made a wrong move, took a hint or asked for the solution.
  4. Choose a theme to practise one idea, or leave it on all themes for a mix near your rating.

Questions

Where do the puzzles come from?
From the Lichess puzzle database, which Lichess made from games played on its site and gave to the public domain. We chose more than 60,000 of the puzzles that solvers rate highest, spread over every level and 26 themes.
How does the puzzle rating work?
Everyone starts at 1200. Each puzzle has its own rating. Solve one at the first try and your rating goes up; miss it and it goes down. The size of the step depends on how the puzzle's rating compares with yours, and the steps are twice as big over your first 20 puzzles so you reach your level quickly.
What counts as a miss?
A wrong move, a hint, or asking to see the solution. You can still finish the puzzle afterwards, but it has already been counted once and is not counted again.
Is my rating saved?
It is kept in this browser, on this device, with no account needed. Clearing the browser's data starts it again at 1200.
I played a different move that also wins. Why was it wrong?
A puzzle has one best move at each step: the others are clearly worse, even if they still win. The one exception is checkmate: any move that gives mate at once is accepted.
Is there a limit on how many puzzles I can solve?
No. There is no daily limit and there are no ads.

Puzzles: Lichess puzzle database, public domain (CC0). Chesspedition is not affiliated with Lichess. More on the acknowledgements page.