Mate in 1
Spot an immediate checkmate and finish the position in one move.
Train your chess calculation
Free Chess Puzzles & Tactics
Improve your tactical vision with a growing collection of chess puzzles. Practice checkmates, combinations, and best-move positions directly in your browser on CHESSVOLA.
Sign in is required to open the puzzle solver and save your progress.
Chess puzzle categories
Choose a focused type of exercise and train patterns you can recognize in real games.
Mate in 2
Calculate a short forced sequence and find the winning continuation.
Mate in 3
Train deeper calculation by working through longer forced mating lines.
Chess tactics
Find strong tactical moves, combinations, double attacks, and best-move ideas.
How the puzzle trainer works
1. Choose a category
Work through checkmates or tactical positions at your own pace.
2. Find the best move
Make the move on the board and continue the line when the position requires it.
3. Track your progress
Your solved puzzles, attempts, hints, skipped positions, and streak can be tracked after sign-in.
Daily training, streak, and protection
Daily set. Five puzzles are available each day: 2 easy, 2 medium, and 1 hard. Completing all five counts as one training day.
Streak. Only training days you actually complete count toward the streak number. Continuous-streak badges are awarded at 7, 30, 90, 180, and 365 completed days.
Streak protection. Every 7 completed training days can grant 1 protection while your stored balance is below 10. One protection automatically covers one missed day without adding that missed day to your completed-day count.
Several missed days. If you have enough protections for the entire gap, one is used for each missed day, so 10 protections can preserve the streak across 10 consecutive missed days. If you do not have enough for the whole gap, the streak starts again and protections are not partially spent.
Why solve chess puzzles?
Chess puzzles help you practice calculation without playing a full game. Repeated exposure to tactical patterns can make it easier to notice checks, captures, threats, mating ideas, and forcing moves when similar positions appear over the board.
If you are still learning the basics, start with the chess rules for beginners guide. Once piece movement is familiar, continue with the chess tactics for beginners guide. To learn how to make plans in quieter positions, read the chess strategy for beginners guide. For positions with fewer pieces, continue with the chess endgames for beginners guide.
Use puzzles for focused training, then test those skills in a real game by playing rated chess online or practice at your own pace by playing chess against the computer.