Unlimited free chess puzzles. The fastest way to get better at chess.
• 200,000+ chess puzzles, from beginner to master
• Over 4 million puzzles played by 50,000+ players
• Your own puzzle Elo that climbs as you improve
• Play offline anywhere, no account needed
• Analyze any position with Stockfish, the world's strongest chess engine
Five minutes a day is all it takes. Chess Puzzles & Tactics serves every rated chess puzzle at exactly your level, so you are always challenged and never bored. Solve, watch your rating climb, and start seeing the winning move before your opponent does.
Win more games with chess tactics
The tactics that decide real games are all here: forks, pins, skewers, discovered attacks, deflection and sacrifices. Drill checkmate puzzles from mate in 1 and mate in 2 to long mating attacks, then convert winning positions with chess endgame training: pawn and rook endgames, opposition and promotion.
Built to make you better
• Puzzles that adapt to you. Your puzzle Elo starts at 1000 and moves with every solve. Let the app pick the difficulty, or set your own Elo range.
• 56 puzzle themes. Train only checkmates, only endgames, or the exact tactic you keep missing.
• Fix your weak spots. Missed puzzles go to your review list, and spaced repetition brings them back until the pattern sticks.
• Hints and engine analysis. Stuck? Take a hint, or analyze the position with the built-in Stockfish chess engine and evaluation bar, right on your device.
• Watch yourself improve. The Elo graph shows your daily rating gains, and the History tab keeps every puzzle you have played.
• Chess puzzles and tactics offline. Download puzzle packs and solve on a plane, on the subway, anywhere. Results sync when you are back online.
• Your rating everywhere. Sign in to sync across your phone, tablet and chesspuzzles.io.
• Make it yours with 28 board themes, 9 piece sets, and sounds and haptics you control.
What you can train
• Checkmate puzzles: mate in 1, mate in 2, mate in 3 and longer, back-rank mates, mating nets, smothered mates
• Chess tactics: forks, pins, skewers, discovered attacks, double checks, deflection, overloading, zwischenzug, sacrifices
• King safety and defense: attacks on the castled king, perpetual check, stalemate tricks, defensive moves
• Chess endgame training: pawn and rook endgames, opposition, passed pawns, zugzwang, promotion
• Positional patterns: knight outposts, rooks on the seventh, the bishop pair, Alekhine's gun and more
Chess training for every level
Beginners learn basic checkmates and simple chess tactics with hints. Club players sharpen calculation and pattern recognition. Strong players set a high Elo range and crack hard combinations. It adapts to you like a personal chess trainer.
Unlimited chess puzzles, free
Download free and solve as many chess puzzles as you want. Open the app and start solving in seconds, whether you have two minutes or a full session of chess practice. Your next rating jump is one puzzle away.