10 attraction motifs rated between 400 and 799, averaging 733. 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 600-rated players. Puzzle ratings work like player ratings: a puzzle rated 600 is one that players around 600 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 d8=Q#
Qxg7+ Kxg7 h8=Q#
Rxg8+ Kxg8 Re8#
Rxh7+ Kxh7 Rh1#
Rxf8+ Kxf8 Re8#
Rxe2+ Rxe2 d3+ Kd1 dxe2+
Re8+ Rg8 Rxg8+ Kxg8 Nf6+ Kg7 Nxd7
Rf1+ Rxf1 Rxf1+ Kxf1 d1=Q+
Rxb8+ Kxb8 Rd8#
Rxg1+ Kxg1 Qd1#
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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 600 is one that players rated around 600 solve roughly half the time. The puzzles on this page average 733, so they suit 600-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.