Chess puzzles at your level, by theme and opening
Almost 4 million puzzles from real games, picked at your level. Your puzzle rating follows every puzzle you solve, overall and in every theme and opening, from forks and pins to rook endgames.
Try one
A puzzle from a real game.
Black has just played. Find the best move for White: drag the piece, or tap it and then where it goes.
White to move: find the best move.
Puzzles like this every day, at your level. After a tricky one, ask the coach, and it shows you the idea on the board.
Get startedFrom a real game on lichess.org. The game ↗
Real games, well tested
Every puzzle comes from a real game on lichess.org, from its open puzzle database. We keep only the well-tested ones: played at least a hundred times, with a settled rating and good votes from the players who solved them. Every puzzle links to its game, so you can see how it really went.
Chess puzzles at your level
Your puzzle rating starts from your rating in your games, and moves with every puzzle the way lichess.org rates its own (Glicko-2). Your puzzles come from a little below it: hard enough to make you think, easy enough to keep you going. You never see the same puzzle twice.
By theme and opening
Every puzzle is tagged with its themes, from forks, pins and skewers to back-rank mates, deflections and rook endgames, and with the opening it came from. Your rating follows each of them too: what you do well, and what we'll work on together.
Puzzles in your plan
Your weekly training plan asks for a few puzzles every day. Ready for something harder? Ghost puzzles are the same puzzles with the board a few moves behind.
Questions
Is it free?
- Free
- Puzzles at your level, with your puzzle rating
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- Puzzles aimed at what we'll work on, and your rating in every theme and opening
Everything each plan has: the plans.
Where do the puzzles come from?
From lichess.org's puzzle database, which lichess.org gives away for anyone to use: positions from real games with one clear best move, each played at least a hundred times before it reaches you.
How is my puzzle rating worked out?
Like a game rating: solving a puzzle rated above you gains more, missing one rated below you costs more. It starts from your rating on Chess.com or Lichess.org, or 1500 without a linked account, and shows a "?" until it has settled.
What counts as solving?
Your first try: the puzzle's move, or any move that mates. Find it after a wrong move and you've still got it, but the rating goes by the first try.
More features
- Your AI player report What you do well and what we'll work on together, from your own games, next to players rated like you.
- A plan for every week A few minutes a day on this week's focus: puzzles, a game against Luny, a look back at your new games. Every Monday by email, if you like.
- A coach for any move Ask in plain words, in the style you pick. Stockfish finds the moves, the coach explains them on the board.
- Ghost puzzles The board stays a few moves behind: picture the position, then find the tactic.
- Luny A human-like opponent at your level. Practise an opening, or play on from a position of your own games.
- Your coach, your way Short and direct, questions and hints, or plain words: pick how the coach explains, or write your own.