Puzzles
Chess puzzles you can start in one click
No sign-up wall in front of the first puzzle. Open chessKish and you are solving within a few seconds — in the same app where you review your games and analyse the positions you got wrong, which is the part most puzzle sites leave out.
Three ways to solve
Puzzles
The standard mode. A position, a task, and a rating that moves as you solve. Work through them at your own pace.
Puzzle Storm
A timed run against the clock. Correct answers buy you more time, so a good streak keeps itself alive and one mistake ends the run.
Puzzle Streak
No clock, rising difficulty, and a single wrong answer finishes it. The score is how far you got without slipping.
Train the pattern, not just the rating
Puzzles are tagged by theme, so instead of grinding a general rating you can go straight at the thing that keeps costing you games — back rank mates, knight forks, discovered attacks, or a specific endgame technique. Pair that with the game review and the loop closes: the review tells you which pattern you missed, and the themed set drills it.
- Pull up a themed set for a weakness you have identified.
- Replay a puzzle you failed rather than moving straight on.
- Send the position to the analysis board when you want to know why the alternative fails.
Board vision, if you need it
Coordinate training drills the square names until you stop counting files and ranks. It is unglamorous and it makes everything else easier, because calculation depends on knowing instantly where a square is.
Solving puzzles is free and needs no account. The timed modes and the themed sets include a daily allowance, after which they join the premium plan — the game review and the analysis board stay free.
Questions
Are the chess puzzles free?
Solving puzzles is free and needs no account. The timed modes and the themed puzzle sets have a daily allowance, after which they are part of the premium plan.
What is Puzzle Storm?
Puzzle Storm is a timed run: you get a fixed amount of time and solve as many puzzles as you can. Correct answers add time, so a clean run extends itself and a mistake cuts it short.
What is Puzzle Streak?
Puzzle Streak gives you puzzles of steadily increasing difficulty with no time pressure. A single wrong answer ends the run, so the score is your longest unbroken sequence.
Can I train a specific weakness?
Yes. Puzzles are organised by theme, so you can pull up a set of, for example, back rank mates, forks, or endgame technique and work on the pattern you keep missing.