10 hook mates rated between 1000 and 1199, averaging 1130. 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.
Hook mate uses a rook, knight and pawn together, with the knight protected by the pawn and the rook cutting off the king. It appears more often than its obscurity suggests.
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.
Rf2#
Rxh7+ Kf6 Rf7#
Nf6+ Kg7 Rxh7#
Nf6+ Kg7 Rh7#
Rf2#
Rh4+ Kg7 Rh7#
Re7#
Rh1+ Kf2 Rf1#
Rh2#
Re1#
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Hook mate uses a rook, knight and pawn together, with the knight protected by the pawn and the rook cutting off the king. It appears more often than its obscurity suggests.
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 1130, 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.