10 attraction motifs rated between 1000 and 1199, averaging 1135. Each position below is from a real game, with the solution given underneath — so you can check yourself immediately rather than guessing whether you were right.
Attraction lures a piece — usually the king — onto a square where it can be hit. It almost always costs material to offer the bait, so these are sacrificial puzzles where the follow-up must be found before the sacrifice is played.
These are pitched at 1000-rated players. Puzzle ratings work like player ratings: a puzzle rated 1000 is one that players around 1000 solve about half the time, so if you are getting most of these you should move up a band.
Solving from a page is good for pattern recognition but not for tracking progress. The rated puzzle trainer serves puzzles matched to your own rating and adjusts as you solve, and the Mistake Trainer builds puzzles from positions you actually got wrong in your own games.
Qxf8+ Kxf8 Rc8#
Rh8+ Kxh8 a8=Q+ Kh7 Qe4+
Rxf8+ Kxf8 Qh8+ Kf7 Ne5+ Qxe5 Qxe5
Qf7+ Qd7 Rb7+ Kxb7 Qxd7+
Rxd7+ Kxd7 Nxc5+ Kc6 Nxa6
Qf5+ Qf6 Rf8+ Kxf8 Qxf6+
Qxf8+ Kxf8 Rd8#
Rxd8+ Kxd8 Qe8#
Qxf8+ Kxf8 Rd8+ Ne8 Rexe8#
Rxf1+ Kxf1 Qa1#
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Attraction lures a piece — usually the king — onto a square where it can be hit. It almost always costs material to offer the bait, so these are sacrificial puzzles where the follow-up must be found before the sacrifice is played.
Puzzle ratings work like player ratings. A puzzle rated 1000 is one that players rated around 1000 solve roughly half the time. The puzzles on this page average 1135, so they suit 1000-rated players.
Yes. Every puzzle on this page, including its solution, is free to view with no account. The rated trainer that tracks your progress and serves puzzles matched to your rating is part of Chess Ramp Premium.