5 Daily Chess Puzzles to Improve Your Game

Daily chess puzzles can be a fantastic addition to everyday life. They are stimulating, enjoyable and most importantly good fun! Solving a puzzle each day is a sure fire way to improve your natural chess game; helping you discover patterns and tactics much faster in real chess games.

For this article we have scoured our archive and brought back 5 extremely fun, challenging and unique daily chess puzzles. Have you got what is takes to solve them all?

5. The King's Entrapment - 11/06/2024

This deviously debaucherous dilemma involves an unusual pairing of moves that you very rarely see in chess to deliver a win. Can you figure out how to lure the king into the trap, and gain victory for white?

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4. The Rook's Last Stand - 16/06/2024

In at number 4 is a curious end game position where white must choose from many promising candidate moves how they can force black's king to abdicate.

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3. Delicious Distractions - 03/04/2024

Steaming into number three is one of our favourite puzzles. Short, sweet and curiously satisfying!

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2. A Powerful Combination - 31/01/2024

Our number two daily puzzle was discovered by our algorithm at the beginning of 2024! Look at the pieces carefully, the most obvious choices aren't always the correct ones...

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1. Feel-Good Checkmate Frenzy - 06/12/2023

And finally, our number one daily puzzle isn't the most difficult of the bunch, but such an electric combination definetely gets dopamine flowing! Can you find the right moves?

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Ahhh, wonderful. Do you feel good after solving those daily puzzles? We release a new one each day on our website, feel free to try your hand at today's puzzle. Good luck!

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