White to play and mate in two moves.
Chess
Chess puzzles with fun, unexpected, or tricky solutions
Bishop Holds Back the Pawns
A pretty challenging chess puzzle, because there isn’t a pre-determined number of moves. White to play and force a draw.
Mate in 12
White to play and mate in 12. Sometimes thinking 12 moves ahead in chess is not as hard as it seems!
Queen’s Mini Tour
Starting from this position, can the queen touch or pass through all nine highlighted squares in just four standard chess moves?
Take Back a Move Chess Puzzle
This creative Leonid Kubbel chess puzzle has white take back a move and then checkmate!
White just made a move, but then realized there was a mate in 1 on the last move and missed it. What was white’s last move, and what was the mate in 1?
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