딴짓모아Mate in one · 12 chess puzzles
Find the final move without playing a whole game. Practice basic mates, captures, discovered attacks and promotion in 12 free interactive puzzles.
Select your piece, then its destination. Checkmate means the king is attacked and no legal move can escape, block or capture the attacker.
Find checkmate in one move.
Choose a puzzle
- Back-rank trap
Look behind the black pawns, on rank 8.
- A protected queen
Find a checking square protected by your king.
- Rook and king
Your king already controls g8 and g7.
- The rook ladder
One rook must keep guarding rank 7.
- Rook supports queen
Connect queen and rook on the g-file.
- Capture the blocker
Find the black piece on the bishop’s diagonal.
- Queen and bishop
Which black pawn is guarded by Bc4?
- Smothered mate
The king is surrounded by its own pieces.
- A pawn finishes
Moving the pawn opens the bishop’s diagonal.
- The hidden rook
The checking piece need not be the piece you move.
- Choose a promotion
A pawn reaching the final rank can become a new piece.
- Black to move
The same back-rank idea works for Black.
These are original, independent teaching positions, not starting positions. Each move is checked automatically. All mating solutions are accepted.