Computer Workout with Key Chess Positions
All good chess players know how to recognize key patterns and positions that occur in their games. The Chess.com Computer Workout tool helps you improve your knowledge of key positions by setting you up to play these key positions against the computer!
Focus on improving different areas of your chess game by selecting a category, theme, and key problem. If you are stuck, ask for a hint from the computer!
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| Position | Difficulty | Goal | Attempts | Start Workout |
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| Closing a File and Keeping It Closed |
Intermediate (1400-1800) |
Material Gain |
1,636 |
Premium Only |
| Coggan – Foster, Boston 1937 |
Intermediate (1400-1800) |
Win |
2,499 |
Premium Only |
| Common Back Rank Theme |
Intermediate (1400-1800) |
Win |
1,416 |
Premium Only |
| Constructing a Stalemate |
Intermediate (1400-1800) |
Draw |
2,544 |
Premium Only |
| Coria - Capablanca, 1914 |
Intermediate (1400-1800) |
Win |
2,662 |
Premium Only |
| Creating the Wrong Rook Pawn |
Intermediate (1400-1800) |
Draw |
1,755 |
Premium Only |
| Cross-Pin |
Intermediate (1400-1800) |
Material Gain |
1,243 |
Premium Only |
| Cutting Off the Enemy King |
Intermediate (1400-1800) |
Win |
2,276 |
Premium Only |
| Cutting the King Off From the Wrong Corner |
Intermediate (1400-1800) |
Win |
3,338 |
Premium Only |
| Decoy for a Discovery |
Intermediate (1400-1800) |
Material Gain |
1,861 |
Premium Only |
| Deflected Queen |
Intermediate (1400-1800) |
Material Gain |
2,653 |
Premium Only |
| Deflecting a Pinning Piece |
Intermediate (1400-1800) |
Material Gain |
1,662 |
Premium Only |
| Deflecting a Rook |
Intermediate (1400-1800) |
Material Gain |
1,324 |
Premium Only |
| Deflecting in Order to Promote |
Intermediate (1400-1800) |
Material Gain |
1,321 |
Premium Only |
| Deflecting to Cause Obstruction |
Intermediate (1400-1800) |
Material Gain |
1,837 |
Premium Only |
| Deflecting to Exploit a King |
Intermediate (1400-1800) |
Material Gain |
1,355 |
Premium Only |
| Discovered Attack With a Threat |
Intermediate (1400-1800) |
Material Gain |
2,012 |
Premium Only |
| Discovery, Decoy and Fork |
Intermediate (1400-1800) |
Material Gain |
1,334 |
Premium Only |
| Drawing the King Away |
Intermediate (1400-1800) |
Material Gain |
1,677 |
Premium Only |
| Drawing the King Into a Discovery |
Intermediate (1400-1800) |
Material Gain |
1,345 |
Premium Only |
| Englund Gambit Trap |
Intermediate (1400-1800) |
Material Gain |
1,375 |
Premium Only |
| Exploiting the Seventh |
Intermediate (1400-1800) |
Material Gain |
2,346 |
Premium Only |
| Extra Pawn in a Knight Endgame |
Intermediate (1400-1800) |
Win |
2,400 |
Premium Only |
| Forcing a Way Through to the King |
Intermediate (1400-1800) |
Material Gain |
2,093 |
Premium Only |
| Forcing Through a Pawn Fork |
Intermediate (1400-1800) |
Material Gain |
1,067 |
Premium Only |
| Gubanov - Uraev, St Petersburg 1910 |
Intermediate (1400-1800) |
Win |
1,536 |
Premium Only |
| Hartlaub - Wielandt, Oldenburg 1920 |
Intermediate (1400-1800) |
Win |
1,873 |
Premium Only |
| Interfering to Give Mate |
Intermediate (1400-1800) |
Win |
1,404 |
Premium Only |
| Invade and Conquer |
Intermediate (1400-1800) |
Win |
2,125 |
Premium Only |
| Keeping the King Blocked Out |
Intermediate (1400-1800) |
Win |
2,055 |
Premium Only |
| Knight and Bishop on the Long Diagonal |
Intermediate (1400-1800) |
Win |
2,766 |
Premium Only |
| Lasker - Moll, Berlin 1904 |
Intermediate (1400-1800) |
Win |
2,122 |
Premium Only |
| Lasker Trap |
Intermediate (1400-1800) |
Material Gain |
2,102 |
Premium Only |
| Lasker's Underpromotion Idea |
Intermediate (1400-1800) |
Win |
1,716 |
Premium Only |
| Mating Idea with Two Knights |
Intermediate (1400-1800) |
Win |
1,293 |
Premium Only |
| Mating With a Sole Knight |
Intermediate (1400-1800) |
Win |
1,475 |
Premium Only |
| Mating With Knight and Pawn |
Intermediate (1400-1800) |
Win |
1,590 |
Premium Only |
| Mating With Rooks on the Seventh |
Intermediate (1400-1800) |
Win |
1,841 |
Premium Only |
| Morozevich - Smeets, Wijk aan Zee 2009 |
Intermediate (1400-1800) |
Material Gain |
1,648 |
Premium Only |
| Morphy - Baucher, 1858 |
Intermediate (1400-1800) |
Material Gain |
2,099 |
Premium Only |
| Morphy - Paulsen, 1857 |
Intermediate (1400-1800) |
Material Gain |
1,718 |
Premium Only |
| Moving Towards a Fork |
Intermediate (1400-1800) |
Material Gain |
1,102 |
Premium Only |
| Mukhin – Bronstein, Moscow 1959 |
Intermediate (1400-1800) |
Draw |
1,485 |
Premium Only |
| Nedvetsky - Kampen |
Intermediate (1400-1800) |
Draw |
1,735 |
Premium Only |
| Not Perpetual Check |
Intermediate (1400-1800) |
Draw |
1,393 |
Premium Only |
| Obstructing the Enemy King |
Intermediate (1400-1800) |
Win |
2,016 |
Premium Only |
| Overworked Queen |
Intermediate (1400-1800) |
Win |
1,527 |
Premium Only |
| Pawn Beats a Knight |
Intermediate (1400-1800) |
Win |
1,289 |
Premium Only |
| Perpetual With Two Bishops |
Intermediate (1400-1800) |
Draw |
1,184 |
Premium Only |
| Platz - Trifunovic, Helsinki Olympiad 1952 |
Intermediate (1400-1800) |
Material Gain |
1,417 |
Premium Only |