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Welcome to puzzle road! A checkmate can sometimes take long and needs a few preparatory moves to be played. In this puzzle, Black cannot directly checkmate by just easily checking the king. Instead of that, you need to correctly develop a new piece and take control another time of a square that White cannot defend enough to survive to your checkmate attack! We often say that you need at least 3 pieces to make a correct checkmate. This puzzle is the perfect example for this. Indeed, the one rook took already possession of the h-column and the second can come to control the g-column if your bishop would not stand on f8.... And your bishop is inactive. You need to put him on a better square! 26/ Without any good moves! (Topic: preparatory moves) Solution: https://www.chess.com/blog/Kyu13/puzzle-road-without-any-good-moves-p26 Have fun in playing chess!@Kyu13

Welcome to Puzzle Road! The half of your pieces on the board, from your color, are pawns. The pawns indeed are the most important pieces for a player in my opinion. In the opening, you need to push them and to control some important squares and the center. In the middlegame, you use them to win squares and next win material. In the endgame, the last step of the chess game, you push them as much as you can to reach the 8th rank and to promote them to Queens! In this puzzle, you will need to find a trick to promote them to Queens. How? Push or not push, this is the question! One of your pawns needs only 1 move to reach the 8th rank but would be captured by the opponent’s rook if you move it. If you move your rook away from the 7th rank, your opponent takes the pawn… Moreover, I did add a funny additional comment. It's hidden somewhere in this article: https://www.chess.com/blog/Kyu13/puzzle-road-push-or-not-push-this-is-the-question-p25 25/ Push or not push, this is the question! (Topic: 7th rank, 8th rank and pawn promotion) Solution: https://www.chess.com/blog/Kyu13/puzzle-road-push-or-not-push-this-is-the-question-p25 Have a great day!@Kyu13

Welcome to Puzzle Road! To win a chess game, you will need to checkmate. To checkmate, you will need to attack your opponent. And to attack your opponent, you will need to correctly develop your pieces. Developing the pieces is probably the most complicated part of the opening and you can always fall in a trap if you put your pieces on the wrong squares. The most common example is the queen trap: when your opponent’s queen cannot move on a square without being captured! That’s the most common imprisonment of a pieces, but the Knights, Rooks and Bishops can be captured too! In this puzzle, we will see a beautiful Bishop imprisonment, but don’t forget the preparatory moves! 20/ Escape me if you can! (Topics: imprisonment of a piece + preparatory move) Check the solution here: https://www.chess.com/blog/Kyu13/puzzle-road-escape-me-if-you-can-p20

Welcome to Puzzle Road! Today, the partner clubs of The United Chess Nations played all in the multi-club arena and I analyzed some of the games, that have been played there. One of them is particularly interesting, and a great move has been played. I decided to show and explain you this move. Great is a great word. And this move is literally a great great move! Indeed, Black blundered and offers material to his opponent. How? You will first have to find it! The advantage collected by White has been all over the game and White successfully win! 24/ Offering free material? (Topic: double attack, material win) Solution of the puzzle: https://www.chess.com/blog/Kyu13/puzzle-road-offering-free-material-p24 Have a good day,@Kyu13

Welcome to Puzzle Road! The puzzle of today is a beautiful forced checkmate, that you need to play in only 4 moves. Black cannot do anything to stop our attack! (the mate could be in a few more moves if the opponent would play the moves proposed by the chess.com analyzing bot, but these moves are useless and cannot stop the mate!) You will have to find the best moves, without blundering. If you play one wrong move: nothing’s there anymore! Will you solve the puzzle? Let’s see if your answer was correct! 23/ The four fantastic moves! (topic: forced checkmate) Find here ther solution if needed: https://www.chess.com/blog/Kyu13/puzzle-road-the-four-fantastic-moves-p23 Have a great day!Have fun in playing chess!@Kyu13

Welcome to Puzzle Road! Today’s puzzle is a beautiful sacrifice to win material! You are surely a future (or maybe already actual) great chess player if you see this one in the first second you watch this puzzle! The position didn’t come in the game I played, because it was only a possible variant, and I blundered a bit the moves I played… (I still drew with a second brilliant move!) In this position, Black has 2 pawns more and played f6 (best move, recommended by Stockfish) The solution to win material is not easy to find and you will need to calculate all the possible variations, the possible moves that your opponent could play. My advice: start with the strangest one, to get in your head something like a schema of the position. 22/ Sacrifice like a Grandmaster! (Topic: sacrifice and X-Ray) Find the solution with this link: https://www.chess.com/blog/Kyu13/puzzle-road-sacrifice-like-a-grandmaster-p22 Thanks for reading, I hope you liked today's puzzle! Have fun in playing chess,Your friend,@Kyu1

Welcome to puzzle road! I am truly happy of the moves I played in a blitz game! These moves are the one you need to find today to solve the puzzle! Endgame. Promotion. Checkmate. Everything in only one puzzle! Not very complicated to find, but I still needed a few seconds to calculate it and check it was really a good move! Promotion of a pawn is probably the main concept of an endgame and the checkmates often results of it. And today, the checkmate is extremely beautiful! As always, I explain you the moves in my blog. 21/ One queen. Two queens. A checkmate! (Topic: pawn promotion) Check the solution with this link: https://www.chess.com/blog/Kyu13/puzzle-road-one-queen-two-queens-a-checkmate-p21 Have a great day! @Kyu13

Welcome back to the Puzzle Road! Coming back from my OTB tournament, I can now continue posting the tactics of the puzzle road after these two days of hard playing! Indeed, the players were rated between 1700 and 2400! There was a FM, who ended 1st of the tournament (!!) My chess tactics have become much better, and today, in opposite of a winning tactic, we will have a drawing-tactic! Alright, Black has a rook more, but we are not losing this position! How? Everything’s explained in the blog! 19/ Objective draw! (Topic: drawing a lost game) You can find the solution, the best moves and all the trap-variants in my article: https://www.chess.com/blog/Kyu13/puzzle-road-objective-draw-p19 Have an excellent day and have fun in playing chess! Your friend, @Kyu13

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Welcome to Puzzle Road! Today’s last day before my OTB tournament of this weekend was successful for me on chess.com in my blitz games! I played a game, had less than 1 minute. My opponent had 2 times more time than me! But he decided to play Queen x b2 (???) and lost with a beautiful checkmate in 3 moves! This is now the position! As topic, I wrote “Elimination of the defense”, because the only piece that protects the castle of the black king is the queen, and it’s some advice for the first move, if Black wants to stop the checkmate, he needs to give the queen! 18/ Checkmate like Tal! (Topic: elimination of the defense) IMPORTANT: I cannot post the puzzles of Saturday and Sunday this week, because I have an OTB tournament. I am sincerely sorry, but we will continue on Monday with the P19 Solution of the puzzle: https://www.chess.com/blog/Kyu13/puzzle-road-checkmate-like-tal-p18

Welcome to puzzle road! I seriously don’t have any idea on how this position came on the board, but while my training for Saturday/Sunday’s tournament OTB, I had this beautiful endgame! Luckily, I had White and not Black. Else, I think I won’t have it called “Beautiful” (!!) On my side, I decided to play a move, which surprised my opponent! (I could see in his face his opinion about how I played) Two possibilities: he did not see the moves and is surprised I could play it. Second possibility: he did think he could win with Black… against me! 17/ A surprise for Black! (Topic: clearance) Solution: https://www.chess.com/blog/Kyu13/puzzle-road-a-surprise-for-black Have a great day!@Kyu13

Hi everyone! Today I will be launching our first edition of Puzzle of the Month. You may submit your puzzle here and at the end of the month I will pick the most exciting or interesting puzzle here (I may make a rubric for that). Post your puzzles below and good luck to all participants! (anyone in this club may participate)

This puzzle is from one of my own rapid games. Sorry for not posting yesterday's puzzle! :/

Welcome to Puzzle Road! Material advantage or no, the chess game is full of surprises and a chess player does need to know how to make them happen. The sacrifices are a very good way to surprise the opponent and if you find a good one, which helps you to win material or to checkmate, don’t hesitate: do it! Calculate the variants, imagine the future position, the advantages your opponent could win and all the possible move (the illogical moves too) to know how to continue the game after having sacrificed! It’s not always the case, that a sacrifice gives you the possibility to win at the next move! 16/ No choice, I need to sacrifice! (Topic: sacrifice) Solution: https://www.chess.com/blog/Kyu13/puzzle-road-no-choice-i-need-to-sacrifice-p16 Thanks for reading! Next puzzle... tomorrow!Have a nice day,@Kyu13

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Welcome to Puzzle Road! I am happy to get your feedbacks about the puzzles! It motivates me to find something always better to post, and I’m sure that the puzzle of today will seem easy to you, because you trained very good your tactics since now already at least 2 weeks!Indeed, the puzzle road is already 2 weeks old and we are soon in the middle of our way to success! Practice makes perfect, right? Let’s see if you found the correct moves in this position of today, to keep the advantage that Black won in the beginning of the game! 15/ Can you win with White? (Topic: defense) Check with this link your moves, if you hesitate! https://www.chess.com/blog/Kyu13/puzzle-road-can-you-win-with-white-p15Have fun in playing chess!

Welcome to puzzle road! Today, you will need to make a choice! You will get two possible moves, and you will have to choose which one is the best! Indeed, OTB you will need to make choices, and will always have many possibilities.In a real game, you will have to find yourself the possible moves, but for this puzzle, I will tell you two moves. One is the best, the other one really a blunder! Which one is the good? 14/ A difficult choice… (Topic: double attack) The two moves are: Rxf1 and Nxf3. The blunder is “not to win material” … the best moves does win material!!Check here the solution if needed: https://www.chess.com/blog/Kyu13/puzzle-road-a-difficult-choice-p14 Have a good day,@Kyu13

I was playing a rapid game with my brother and I blundered in the end... It's the worst when you are completely winning and then throw it away I was on 40 seconds and I panicked, pushing the h pawn to h3!!!! when my brother checked me with his rook I thought I was fine and just moved to h2, allowing mate in 2.... I was still dead but I could've delayed my doom by blocking with the queen. I've done many puzzles on this kind of checkmate but all of that training is eliminated when I'm under time pressure and I'm cocky. My advice: don't spend to much time or get cocky! If you have any big blunders that you would like to share (you or one of your opponents), post them here!

Welcome to Puzzle Road! Today's puzzle is about the sixth move of an opening! Alright, some traps are important to know and it's important to know how to play and which moves to play if our opponent does fall in one of them! The objective of this puzzle is to win a clear advantage of space and development. I admit, U1200 you will have some difficulties to see it, but after seeing it one time, you will remember it for an entire life, be sure of that! 13/ Become an opening expert! (Topic: opening trap) Check the solution in this blog, where all the variants and explanations are given about the moves and this position! https://www.chess.com/blog/Kyu13/puzzle-road-become-an-opening-expert-p13Try not to get this position if you are Black! Have an excellent day friends!