Puzzle Academy Courses
Fundamentals
For beginners, fundamentals are very important to master. Learn to:
- Capture pieces
- Defend pieces
- How to react when your king is in check
- Checkmate with queen, rook, or two bishops
Tactics
Win your opponent's pieces with a forced sequence of moves. Learn about:
- Forks
- Pins and skewers
- Discovered attacks and checks
- Removing the defence
- Intermediate moves and checks
- Trapping pieces
Combinations
Combine several tactical motifs to achieve a material advantage. Combinations are the most complex and beautiful tactics.
- Removing the defence
- Trades and decoys
- Clearance
- Opening lines
Checkmate Patterns
Practicing checkmate patterns will enable you to recognize possible checkmates very quickly.
- 32 checkmate patterns
- Several difficulty levels for each pattern
Checkmate Combinations
Combine tactical motifs with checkmate patterns to achieve spectacular checkmates.
- Sacrifices
- Mating nets
- Double checks
Defence
Learn to defend against your opponents' threats:
- Defending pieces
- Defend against check
- Defend against checkmate
- Defend against promotion
- Stalemate
Attacking
This is a new course. Follow along while the course is being developed:
- Weak back-rank
- Double attacks
- Attacking the uncastled king
- Attacking the castled king
Endgames
This is a new course. Follow along while the course is being developed:
- Checkmate with bishop and knight
- Rook versus knight
- Rook versus bishop
- King and Pawn versus King
- Queen versus Pawn
- Knight versus Pawn