Master vs Master Chess Puzzles

About master vs master puzzles

Master versus master puzzles feature the highest-quality tactical positions — taken from games where both players are strong and fought hard for every advantage. These positions are typically more deeply contested than games between a master and a weaker player, making the tactics more accurate and the solutions more instructive. Master-versus-master puzzles train you to handle positions of genuine complexity where both sides have resources and the solution requires precise calculation. Practising these puzzles exposes you to the tactical and strategic themes that appear in elite chess competition and builds the combinational thinking needed to compete at higher levels. These are the puzzles that most directly reflect serious chess play.

How to train master vs master

These positions come from real games at a specific level, so they reflect the mistakes players at that level actually make.

Questions

How many master vs master puzzles are there?

Enough that you will not repeat them — this set is drawn from a library of over 1,000,000 puzzles taken from real games, graded from easy to hard.

What level is this suitable for?

Children from about age 5 upward, once they know how the pieces move, through to rated tournament players. Start on the easy set and move up when you are solving most of them at a glance.